RE: illegal fish importation

Alan Ford (aford at pcug.org.au)
Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:53:12 +1000 (EST)

At 07:30 AM 11/07/96 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Barry Meiklejohn wrote:
>
>> I think the pertinent points as raised by Adrian and Bruce still
>haven't been addressed to my satisfaction. All fish coming into this
>country are potential time bombs, and many have the ability to do more
>damage to the environment than rainbowfish. I can't see the government
>(be it AQIS, Customs, whoever) stopping the importation of fish and if
>they tried the fish would still come in (as we have seen). The thought
>that these services would ever have the staff to go around to every
>house in Australia to check fish is an absurdity. >
>
>Two wrongs don't make a right.
>
>A little game of devil's advocate.
>
>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. One doesn't need to
>hit every house.
<snip>

Ahemm, lets do do Customs or AQIS 's job for them :-)

Cheers
Alan
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