[jsmth321]

Big issues with the bill are:

The bill requires the USFWS to deem what species are a potential risk not an actual risk.

Currently species are only banned if they pose and actual threat.

Big proponents of the bill are animal rights groups.

A species that poses a threat in Hawaii could be banned in all 50 states.

The USFWS lacks the resources to conduct the risk assessments on all non-native species within 37 month


We just dont know what the USFWS will come up with. But this bill is not a direct attack on reef/marine hobby and was not written for that purpose.

As for captive breeding, some species just will never be easy or commercially viable to breed in captivity simply because of the way nature has them breeding.

not to mention the likely hood of it being passed is slim.

If it gets through committee which it could, it could very well find its way into another larger more important piece of legislation and back door passed, would not be the first time they passed a bill this way.