RE: NANFA-L-- off topic - endangered chinese sturgeon on

J. C. (hillbillynursery-in-yahoo.com)
Sun, 7 May 2006 21:07:07 -0700 (PDT)

Aquabid.com has now been told about this. I have a
feeling the auction will be removed once the owner
checks his email. Atleast we maybe able to stop the
profit side of this guys plan and do some good.

Later, John

--- matt ashton <ashtonmj2003-in-yahoo.com> wrote:

> My first suggestion would be to notify the western
> Fish and Wildlife region. Second, I doubt that
> Aquabid readily polices their site as intesively as
> a larger site, say eBay does, or they are aware of
> CITES and it the variuos levels it has. I often
> question things I see on eBay from time to time that
> is sold, especially when you really get down to the
> nuts and bolts of various states laws on the
> importation of wildlife. The internet is simply too
> vast and this type of trading is becoming more and
> more frequent, whether the seller is aware of the
> law or not.
>
> And well a modern government that turns river
> systems into ponds...this is the biggest pot of them
> all calling the kettle black.
>
> Ben Dattilo <bdattilo-in-utahwisp.com> wrote:
> That is pretty brazen. Now I will say that I have
> my doubts about a modern
> (=should know better) government that would want to
> turn the entire Yangtze
> Gorge into a pond . . .but perhaps the Chinese
> consulate in LA could do
> something--at least put up a fuss?:
>
> http://losangeles.china-consulate.org/eng/
>
> From the writing style and misspellings in the add I
> could almost imagine
> that this guy is Chinese("I will *guarantee* *LIFE*
> ARRIVAL"--certainly not
> native speaker--reminds me of assembly instructions
> from China--not to
> mention some papers that I have reviewed) . . .so
> that move might involve
> more than scare . . .as an alternative, does
> "aquabid" have any interest in
> obeying the law, or-in-least in appearing to care
> about endangered species?
> We could certainly tell them how we feel about this
> . . .
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Michael Sandel
> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 8:55 PM
>
> Who can we forward this to, that can scare the crap
> out of this guy for
> importing CITES listed species?
>
>
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fw&1147504076
>
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