[Delphinus]

What's the synopsis of this new bill?

I don't know: I've always myself accepted it as inevitable that eventually legislation will be introduced that impacts the hobby (or industry, more accurately). For now, I don't think that U.S. legislation affects us as much, since most of the "big" players in this country are doing there own importing anyway (or so they would have us believe).

The U.S. has 10 times the population of Canada and the demands of the hobby onto the reefs are at least that much so, if not more so. I feel that the impact that Canadian reefers have on the reefs of the world are a "drop in the bucket" compared to the effect that our U.S. counterparts have.

But even if it were to come to pass and if it was the same up here, I don't know if I see it as an "end" to the hobby though. A change that we will have to adapt to, for sure ... but really, if it's something like "the importation of unsuitable species will be restricted" .. is that necessarily a bad thing? Or if it shifts focus to things like captive breeding / propagation .. again, although things like cost will likely go up initially, but if the demand is there, the industry will probably adapt.