I know what you mean by bowl but there are those out there hell bent on
stopping you keeping that nice fish you have in any aquarium/bowl at all.
Education is way better than legislation. If you are dead set against
goldfish in bowls you should prove to all those buying little bowls and big
goldfish that what they do is not nice for the goldfish.
If a law in Australia was passed banning goldfish in bowls the NT Govt would
interpret that to include all aquarium fish in any water anywhere.
In Darwin I can only keep one New Guinea species of fish legally. In the
NT you can only keep NT Native fish and most of the species on the allowable
import fish except Oscars. The recent 6 species added by DEH Minister Ian
Campbell have been banned here in the NT.
Australian native Pacific Blue-eyes are a prohibited import here in the NT.
My advice is be very careful when siding with fanatics who have an agenda
much bigger than yours.
Dave
On 26/10/05 9:15 PM, "Christophe Mailliet" <christophe.mailliet at web.de>
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> Hi Andrew,
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> Good on you for that!
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> Cheers,
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> Christophe
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> r_m_l at yahoogroups.com schrieb am 26.10.05 13:35:12:
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> Hi fiesta,
>
> I've been subtly trying to ban goldfish bowls for years :)
>
> In an interesting moment last week I applied for a part-time position at
> one of the local pet shops - apart from a bit of cash to supplement the
> 'writing career', I was also after some human contact. One of the
> reasons I did not get the job was, I believe, a statement I made about
> the abject uselessness of anything smaller than a 100 litre tank for
> keeping goldfish. Bad for business, I guess. If being in the pet trade
> means I have to actively promote cruelty then I will sleep better if I
> am not part of it.
>
> Best regards, Andrew
>
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