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

matt ashton (ashtonmj2003-in-yahoo.com)
Sun, 7 May 2006 19:09:51 -0700 (PDT)

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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