Guess again, George! :)
I have no end of respect for the organisations listed above, and have every
faith in their abilities to carry out their charters....
Individual members, I am none too sure of, and I would not like to place
*some* of them in a situation where there would be financial advantage for
them in having "pedigreed" fish - I think that some may not be able to
resist the temptation to fiddle the paperwork.
But yes, George, I agree with you that it would be a logistical nightmare.
There is already an informal system of "registration" of breeders - it's
that word-of-mouth trustability factor, and if the "word" has got around
that someone is unrelaible, producing diseased or hybridised stock, then all
their fish are generally treated as suspect.
This system has holes in it a mile wide, but it works most of the time, so
it seems, in Oz anyhow, as far as I have seen.
Regards, Andrew Boyd
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Andrew Boyd - andrew at pcug.org.au - http://www.pcug.org.au/~andrew
"May you kindle Fire and never be burned by it,
May the Air never send storms across your path,
May the path across the Earth be a soft one,
May the Water of your tears always taste sweet with joy,
May your Spirit find your own true path...."
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