Re: illegal fish importation

Alan Ford (aford at pcug.org.au)
Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:56:58 +1000 (EST)

>Hello everybody
>
>Something came too my attention the other night and it has had me
>thinking ever since about attitudes and actions of people within our
>organisation (ANGFA for those in other countries). This is going to be a
>long post so feel free to skip this rather lengthy diatribe.
>
>At a recent non angfa fish meeting there was a bit of excitement over the
>rumour that a large number of rainbowfish, that had not previously
>been in the country, making it here. Initially my reaction was one of
>excitement as well because of the nature of many of the fish from PNG and
>Irian Jaya. However I have changed my mind about this and the following
>is my reasoning for that.

Much diatribe deleted

>I will stop here and let people think about this. I must say that i did
>not like writing this and I am sure that I have won few friends with the
>attitudes expressed here. However I think that the direction that is
>being taken is the wrong one and that opinion should be expressed. I must
>admit that I have praecox, I have sort of felt guilty at having them for
>a long while now. However this new action I think is overboard, rash and
>ill disciplined if true.

Whilst Peter must be commended for his thoughts I personally believe that
things will continue as is!

I always look forward to new species arriving at any time, this is purely a
selfish attitude though.

ANGFA must continue to make representations to bodies such as AQIS to allow
the import of these wonderful and seemingly harmless species (rainbowfishes
in particular) and yes we do have a number of undescribed species here -
why is nobody working on their description ? is it lack of funding or
interest ?

BTW Peter you can bring your praecox round to me any time for safekeeping... :-)

Cheers
Alan
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