City of Vernon considers exotic pet ban bylaw incl saltwater fish

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Originally Posted by 2pts

Glad I live 120ft outside Vernon, although Coldstream's council is probably worse.

Wonder why they would stop at Salt and not go after Fresh, I geuss the fresh water fish of the world are not as important to the hippies eh?

The answer is that something like 90% of fresh water fish is aquacultured.

Something like 1% of saltwater is aquacultured the rest is from the sea.
In many cases aquacultured saltwater fish are available but LFS don't bother to bring them in.

I think the solution to the problem is not what Vernon proposes.

The solution is a ban on
1. import of fish and coral where aquacultured fish and coral are available. (except for seed stock)
2. import of unsuitable species like large fish like shark, poisonous species like blue ring octopus and those species that have little chance of success in hobbyists tanks. (Moorish Idol, many butterflys, cleaner wrasse etc.