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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