Clownfish75 wrote:hang on boys, why would i be supporting a tariff on USA imports of marine fish?
You seem to forget were some of us are!
Christian
acroporas wrote:If you are going to put a tax on wild livestock the tax would have to be ALL wild livestock, not just species that have CB alternatives. Otherwise I expect the following scenario to play out over and over.
- Yellow tangs currently not currently CB so wholesalers can get them cheep. $1 per fish.
- Breeder X spends $$$ figuring out how to breed yellow tangs. Yellow tangs are now available CB so the tax is applicable. After tax WC yellow tangs cost the wholesalers $10 per fish.
- Wholesalers boycott breeder X's CB fish so that breeder X goes out of business. CB yellow tangs no longer exist, the tax goes away, and the wholesalers are happy again because they can again get WC yellow tangs for $1.
I was not keeping you out Christian,;) I was suggesting an import tax in any country to help promote local breeders
Almon wrote:Many corals are being propagated in the hobby and there are many small individual breeders that provide tank raised fish to the hobby, but it's truely less than a drop in the bucket. I have a price list of animals from Sea Dwelling Creatures and 98% of the fish are wild caught. Only a couple species of clowns appear as tank raised. Everything else is wild caught....everything.
skearse wrote:While the idea would possibly reduce the impact to the wild reefs, since the original question was whether or not it would belp the hobby, I think in fact it may very well have the opposite effect.
skearse wrote: do only operations such as ORA have the volume availability to be considered truly available? Ditto propagated corals...most of us with frag tanks would hardly consider ourselves capable of offsetting (putting a dent in) any reduction in imports that a tarriff may create.
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