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Anybody else get this email today? URGENT! - FEDS Hold Hearing April 23 To Ban Nonnatives ON April 23rd 2009 The Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. Congress will hold a hearing on H.R. 669, a resolution that will in effect ban importation, interstate transport and the private ownership of...

oceanfish, do all of us a favor and write to Bob Fenner asking his opinion of an unsuitable species list? Should be very enlightening and entertaining.

Exactly, manage the ornamental fishery exactly like one would a food fish. Is collection sustainable or not?

"Steven, the voluntary unsuitable species list USL, never suggested that expert hobbyists should be denied access to USL species." Wayne, how in the world are you, or worse yet the government, going to define expert aquarists?

Wayne, you have assumed that what someone told you someone else said is in an accurate representation of their views. Bob Fenner on Moorish Idols on WWM, "Zanclus cornutus (Linnaeus 1758), the Moorish Idol. Indo-Pacific. Can be kept in captivity, though rarely lives due to trauma in capture...

On a somewhat related note, did any of you hear about Matt Pederson's work with the orange spotted filefish. This is a fish that many people would argue should be left in the ocean. But, Matt has several pairs that he has trained off of corals and onto a prepared diet. And not only that, but...

Just an update, I am no longer with Red Sea. I am now the VP of Sales with IceCap Inc.

Anyone care to comment on this thread, http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showt ... id=1426393 I recall hearing a few months back that Tonga was shutdown due to CITES paperwork issues, but had not heard about the rumors spreading over there.

Does that mean no one else uses quin OR that other's use it, just unregulated?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 8#25462218

Just a little update. Since originally making the above post, I have taken a job as East Coast Sales Manager for Red Sea.

Allegedly. ;) As to why DNR did not fund your study, there could be other explanations. They could have preferred to investigate the matter themselves instead of "subcontracting" it out. They could have thought the rumors were so without merit as to not warrant an investigation. Or, any...

So, are there any opinions on the act itself?

Here is some background information, http://www.coralreef.noaa.gov/crca.html