Do they send the "fish police " around to inspect the aquaria of all SA
citizens that are known or rumoured to have had a fish tank within living
memory?
It would be interesting to know how truly effective this legislation has
been. What fish are really being kept and bred, and exchanged and
transferred in and out of the state unofficially. Just because an activity
is declared officially unacceptable doesn't automatically stop it from
occurring. e.g. Roy's reference to "pot".
> if ten years later you still had a given banned fish that usually
> lives five years that you may be in trouble.
I still contend that even after 10 years (perhaps because they have been
lovingly maintained for those 10 years) the choice between "bouncing" and
"liberating" will not automatically result in "surrender".
Of course in SA there are not a lot of suitable natural habitats available
to the "liberationists" :)
>From my recent reading of ANCA/AQUIS's latest 269 page opus they have more
universal plans in mind than emulating the SA efforts. Perhaps they have
not been impressed with the reality of it as opposed to the theory.
There is nothing quite like a piece of paper ( read permit, legislation,
license, certificate etc) to keep a bureaucrat happy that things are in
order ;-)
Cheers
Bruce Hansen