US Aro Smuggler Caught!!!!!

[ctjlm1088]

wow thats crazy!

 

[Hao]

That's just dumb. None of those fish are wild caught anyways-- they're all farm raised for ornamental purposes. The US Government is stupid to ban farm-raised Asian Arowanas-- if they they opened the borders on Asian Arowanas with the stipulation that X number of Asian Arowanas were reintroduced to the wild, farms would most definitely give up a few batches to the wild if they could sell to America's 300 milllion people.

Use economic incentives to make changes-- not prohibitions. Yeesh...

i agree

 

[FL2008]

hahaha that's The US

 

[Tstove15]

do you think he was doing it for the money? or just for personal satisfication with having the fish?....I think he problay would have sold the corals and kept the aro lol

 

[bfhslilred93]

please dont start the debate on how the us government is stupid and how asian aros should be legal in the us i dont have the energy for it again

 

[Eleven Bravo]

yet drug dealers/smugglers get a slap on the risk

 

[Hao]

wow i wonder what happens if you smuggle 1 haha

 

[Tstove15]

please dont start the debate on how the us government is stupid and how asian aros should be legal in the us i dont have the energy for it again

haha amen

 

[zerojquan85]

Asian legal in US.. old news.. too much debate over it.... but nice to know someone got caught for it..

 

[perfect_prefect]

I am very new to this site but I have a qeustion about asian arowana's. Obviously there must be some in this country pre ban so are there laws preventing people from selling or trading them?

to the best of my knowledge when something is banned IF IT IS grandfather claused, then you can keep it yourself, but you cannot transport it across state lines sell or trade it.