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So your points have some validity. However, I would highly suggest to you or anyone involved in constructing proposed rules or regulations that you actually put some logic and thought in to what is being written. Your not going to get anywhere if you don't. I have read every bill in the past...

I don't really think that people would be upset to see some reasonable management scheme developed. But there is nothing in this bill that would do that. It reads like most of the past bills have read. It seems to be constructed without a lot of thought or logic. Why not simply propose to...

How is the import business for wild birds?

Well as I said earlier buy a lease for Florida live rock. I think that their will be some modifications. But I was told that a group is trying to get the laws written on the model of the some of the wild bird rules. I also I think that you will see several more bills coming down the pipe...

It is all about education and the willingness of shops to take anything at any time. We need to develop a network of Vets to properly euthanize snakes, bird or other non fish organisms. We need to train LFSs how to properly euthanize fish. Provide them with the chemicals. This all needs to...

SEC. 4. LIST OF APPROVED SPECIES. (a) Requirement To Issue List of Approved Species- (1) IN GENERAL- Not later than 36 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a list of nonnative wildlife species approved for importation into the...

Yea that is what I figured, I can't be the only one hearing these things. When it passes, in some form, the industry will have three years to get an approved list of species for importation. The bothersome part and where it's going to kill the industry, is the live rock issue. USDA takes an...

expect it to pass in some form. That is what I am being told.

You can look for them to be banned from importation soon. The list of approved (New HR Bill) species will most likely not include any species Lionfish, thus banning them.

I bought from holiday many years ago. Nice stuff, but that was about 7 years ago.

http://www.orbitec.com/LEDaquarium.html http://www.planet-llc.com/pages/sunbow/pages/apollo.htm

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c ... Az6CF:e388: To prevent the introduction and establishment of nonnative wildlife species that negatively impact the economy, environment, or other animal species' or human health, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of...

I think you have to read the patent a bit more in depth. over a tank for growth is one of the claims. Another is a claim to customize the color spectrum. There are several other claims as well. This really stinks for anyone with a reef tank. I just hope they have the cash to muscle through...

Like I said it is a real shame that the people writing this stuff don't really care about working to fix a problem in a logical thoughtful manner. Instead we get nowhere.

Someone patented the use of saline ground water for rearing marine fish in the southwest. Someone patented the use of a copepod species for rearing marine fish larvae. I'd wonder when they do research, I think its a volume and fee game and they let the lawyers figure it out.

Wayne the problem is that the people that keep writing this trash don't fully understand or care to learn about the problem they are trying to fix. Hawaii needs to at least look over to the east coast and see what Florida is trying to do. While Florida isn't perfect at least they have some...

More legislation http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session20 ... /SB75_.htm

Wayne I agree with Gresham here. Sure made me sit back in my seat when I saw it. I'm freaking trilled we were slower with a roll out than PFO. Bill Gates had some interesting comments about the slack patent system a while ago. I think his thoughts are right on the money. Fingers are crossed...

Last I saw they were in the middle of a law suit over patent infringement or something along those lines. That was 6 months ago or so. Not sure if that would have anything to do with not getting to the phone.

Some scary and interesting papers. Reef Note in Coral Reefs: http://www.springerlink.com/content/n48 ... ltext.html Paper in MEPS Invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans reduce recruitment of Atlantic coral-reef fishes Mark A. Albins*, Mark A. Hixon Department of Zoology, Oregon...