Two wrongs don't make a right.
A little game of devil's advocate.
You seem pretty fond of the two wrongs don't make it right idiom. I am not saying that it is right, what I am saying is that I am not going to knock the fish back if they are ever offered to me, or I see them for sale, auction whatever. I think that mos
t hobbyists probably have a similar attitude.
If I worked for customs or politics the first thing I would do it redo
the list of fish that were in the country before the ban (which is a well
known list) and anything further to that I would slap a heavy fine on
anyone who has it in their possesion. It would not be hard to figure out
who the 10 most likely people are in ANGFA to have illegal fish. I would
hit those 10 houses and make examples out of them.
BTW I don't think that these departments have right of access to private property, they would require warrants for entry. They appear to have enough trouble checking on shops and aquaculture setups. Then they would have to prove that you imported the fi
sh illegally, which is exactly what happened to one fellow in the case of praecox. They couldn't prove it, hence the fish are still for sale. As far as I am concerned that was a waste of tax payers money...
Again I am not saying this makes it right but lets live in the real world and not talk theoretics and scaremongering.
Before spreading rumours such as this would you like to provide some
evidence for it? Especially since you are 2000km away from Macedon and
most of what I have heard Qlders discuss about Victoria over the years is
BS. (nothing personal just that I'm tired of Qlders without facts and
I'm sure it works both ways a bit) There were two species lost in that
fire, Kiunga ballochi and some red and black goby. Crockford usually had
the sense to pass some of his stocks onto Armstrong and unfortunately
Kiunga was not one of them.
I am not interested in rumours or scaremongering as in your previous posting, thank goodness you're not in customs. You seem to have missed the point, which is not that Barry Crockford kept all the fish to himself, however in those days there was limited
stock of many species, lets specifically say kutubu (which I know for a fact has been supplemented) and yes a lot of fish were spread out before the fire. However the current strains of many of these fish have been supplemented from time to time (illega
lly if you would like). The fact that I live 2000km from Macedon doesn't mean diddley squat, as you should know doubt be aware, living how far from Australia?
Barry.