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February 04, 2022
Maybe a bit of optimism here. The version of the bill referenced in this article (and on most congressional websites) is the original version from January 25th. The rules committee went through the amendment process and appears to have stricken all amendments to the Lacey Act.You can find the list of amendments here: https://rules.house.gov/bill/117/hr-4521. Line 252 withdrew Lacey Act amendments. Amendment 599 strikes the entire section.
“599 Version 1 Crawford (AR) Republican Late Strikes Sec. 71102 – Lacey Act amendments.” -
February 04, 2022
it is unfair to ban fish and corals because you lack the funds or cannot come up with an oversite department to control over fishing or poching. legislation has the money to fund these departments and refuses to because there is of no financial interest to them. if you were talking about banning all guns or oil or gold then you would never hear about any of these things happenning.
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February 09, 2022
Make no mistake, they are not doing this because there isn’t interest or finances to police it. They are only interested in preventing pet ownership. These are all tied to the same people that fabricated statistics and unrepeatable “studies” in Hawaii to ban all collections which flew in the face of 30yrs of verified data.
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February 05, 2022
I sure hope a widespread ban can be avoided. Learning about new and different species of fish is a significant part of the aquarium hobby.
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February 06, 2022
Then it’s time they were stopped everyone has to call the State House in their state the capitals that’s right call there and ask her what’s before the Senate and Congress on the bills so they can’t pass it and then you can ask your representative or Senator to make up one because we are against it we the people do hold more clout than a fake government you forget it is our planet not theirs we are many and they are few someone has to start the ball rolling on the petition if they’re good at doing that let’s get it started I am not good at that part sorry I will say prayers and I will sign and we can stop this
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February 06, 2022
We the people that have fish or plants we need to stop them from doing this If there is any way to get this information over to Facebook so I can repost I would get this word out. I seen two videos one from Secrets living in your aquarium and Father Fish his video. Some lady wrote to me inbox on FB saying these videos have been going around for a while. Lady was trying to tell me its not going to happen. I told her that these two people said it passed the house and now the senate has it. She was like I didn’t see anything that is going to stop us from having fish. She got me so pissed off, she’s like its not on news. So If there is any way to get this post from Art Parola over to Facebook. I would love that dam lady to see this is not fake. We will loss aquarium stores, aquariums and zoos all around. And that those people who are selling fish like ebay or aquabid this would all be illegal for all of us. I wish the word would get out in newspapers too. I would hate to lose our hobby of having fish or plants.
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February 11, 2022
Hey Dawn, copy the link from to this page from your browser and paste it into a new post on any social platform. This is really easy to do! 🙂
Jer.
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February 07, 2022
Do not worry as with anything illegal there is always a black market although you will pay a higher price no matter what happens the market will survive legally or illegally
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February 09, 2022
I’m so against this Bill. No one is taking into account on how many species we have actually saved from extinction in captivity in programs to be released in to there native habitats to save those species from extinction. Not only that. There is far more damage being done by gas lines and economic growth in expansions of business and housing that has affected native species in their wild habitats than the local exotic pet keeper being responsible with exotic animals. With this being said. Not only are we gaining more knowledge in a private setting of our own homes over the course of many years being taught by the previous keeper over the course of many years. Alongside the most responsible and knowledgeable keepers of many generations. We still have learned so much more from exotics being in our care over the course of many years and still to this day we wouldn’t of known about in a wild setting. Many species being deemed exotics have been in so many generations hands and care in the captive breed setting. This has eliminated the need to take from the wild period on many of these instances. Not one shoe fits all. This bill is unacceptable to say the least.
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February 09, 2022
Where is the “white list” to determine what species are on it currently?
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February 09, 2022
The “whitelist” doesn’t exist yet, FWS would have to create it.
The current “blacklist” of injurious species is at https://www.fws.gov/injuriouswildlife/pdf_files/Current_Listed_IW.pdf – note that it’s pretty short when you consider that there are tens of thousands of different species of critters worldwide.
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February 09, 2022
NO on The America COMPETES Act HR4521.
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February 11, 2022
So during the rant he continues to talk about the Lacey Act,which is already in place! He never says what the new language is that was slipped in late (which is why all bills should be line item only).If you are going to rant about something -tell us what it is!
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February 11, 2022
Howdy Folks!
Here is a link to the current public record of this bill, with status and a record list of amendments.
Hopefully, this helps eliminate confusion.Additionally, here is a link to the current read of the “Lacey Act” (without the proposed changes):
Lastly, if you went to the link for a read of HR4521 and had trouble finding what this is about in the 2,912 pages of legal language – look at page 1,661 in the section under Miscellaneous called: “SEC. 71102. LACEY ACT AMENDMENTS.” here:
https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-117HR4521RH-RCP117-31.pdf
I hope this helps some folks! 🙂
Kindly,
Jer.
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February 13, 2022
Between ‘invasive species’ bans (ie you are not allowed to sell, keep or import foreign species) and ‘threatened native species’ lists (ie you are not allowed to sell, keep or import designated native species), soon you won’t be able to buy or keep anything, native or foreign! There is a law for everything.
I agree that hobbyists are helping to conserving species. Plants like anubias and crypts will never be exitinct now thanks to aquarists.
Its a bum deal…
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April 28, 2022
What about putting cattle out in areas where wildlife are, they are being exposed to rabies, I’ve worked in veterinarian medicine for 22 years and we always told our clients to not put any domestic animals out where they would be exposed to wildlife and to not keep or have anything that would encourage wildlife to hang around premises , cattle can get rabies from wildlife that are carriers, bats skunks and they can have rabies and not show signs of it and cattle have been the number one domestication animal to get rabies, there is no sure way of knowing if cooking meat would be safe even after it’s cooked, cattle should be kept in veterinarian supervision for at least 10 and proof of rabies vaccine and each checked over before slaughter