well this is VERY conerning...

[TypicalWhiteAZN]

Purposal to ban on 57 coral specials that we've all known to love based on false and exaggerated data by tree huggers, 83 in total. Scary considering the money these people get are from average citizens like ourselves. With disregard to economical consequences they take all means to lobby and push their misguided agenda.

http://reefbuilders.com/2013/04/03/reef-hobby-call-comments-esa-coral-listing/

hope for the best 'cause a lot of us will be out of a means of income if they get their way.. :-/

 

[Neverlost]

yep. It is funny how you can be a happy reefer interested in preventing global warming or whaling and all of a sudden your change is going toward the banning of corals that science knows little about, and stands to know a lot less about without the help of hobbyists.

Did anyone ever stop to think that in this age of global change, we captive shepherds of coral may be a coral species best chance of long term survival?

 

[FijiZoo]

I can only say if this is passed I will have little to no fate in NOOA

 

[TypicalWhiteAZN]

sooo i read into it a lil more on PIJAC's page...

second page starts off great..

then it asks 'us' (anyone in the hobby) to submit personal comments about it....

unfortunately that deadline ended yesterday at almost midnight....

FML.....

https://www.pijac.org/_documents/us_noaa_coral_species_listing_ii_alt.pdf

 

[TypicalWhiteAZN]

I can only say if this is passed I will have little to no fate in NOOA

yes, lets keep the species endangered by climate change and raise in sea acidity exactly where they are most vulnerable to be wiped off... great logic...

 

[sklywag]

They don't want answers on how to solve problems. That would end their means of aquiring more money for research. Once research on how to fix the supposed problem is found. The money stops.
Have/had many friends that were desert rats. Of course they all brought tortoises home over the years. Many breeding them to success and are members of some society willing to reintroduce them back in the wild. Government says they wouldn't know how to forage for themselves in the desert. Amazing how you don't need to train an animal on how to eat. Especially a grazing animal. It will instinctively start to graze on whatever it deems as food and naturally turn away from something potentially harmful to it without ever being trained. But government knows better.

 

[Reef Bullet]

http://www.socalireefs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40847

 

[AndrewSpeake]

this is such crap. better not pass. what do we do with all our tanks lol. they will all be illegal to possess yet we cant transport it. This bill basically criminalizes us. R we supposed to throw the coral away lol. even further contradicting their idea

 

[Six2seven]

It won't pass but thy cannot monitor us selling to each other. calerpa is illegal and look how many people have and share that.