Re: [RML] Banning all PNG fish
Adrian R. Tappin (atappin at ecn.net.au)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:19:52 +1000
At 16:12 10/09/97 -0700, Peter wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Adrian R. Tappin wrote:
>
>> I've never seen any
>> reports of feral populations anywhere in Australia.
>
>Isn't it too late to do anything once that has occured? The whole idea of
>the kind of legislation you are talking about is to prevent species that
>are likely to establish in the Australian environment from having any
>opportunity to do so. Sure, there are lots of hypocracies in this, ie
>guppies and swordtails because they are so popular but that's life.
I don't know how many years you need before you are convinced that they are
unlikely to establish feral populations, isn't 50 years enough?. Perhaps we
could review the situation again in the year 2525 but by then there wont be
any freshwater fish surviving anywhere so I guess it really doesn't matter.
Adrian.
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