Howard Norfolk

In Canada we have no restrictions on importing aquarium fish because not many let free in the wild would survive a -40f cold snap! (With one exception. see: http://aquarticles.com/articles/travel/ ... _fish.html ). A popular thing to do is go to the Amazon and bring back wild caught fish, and of course we can bring fish across the US border. We do have a few recent problems with introduced fish - Atlantic salmon escaping from fish farms on the Pacific coast, Russian snails let free from ships' ballast in the Great Lakes, and so on, but aquarium fish haven't caused a problem. New Zealand has complicated quarantine regs. that I wrote about in my article about Gordon McKay in the People section of Aquarticles, and Bermuda has tough regs. that Craig Morfitt wrote about in the Travel section. Howard.

If you're in Borneo, you may be interested to read: http://aquarticles.com/articles/travel/ ... orneo.html The author, Earle Shim, was brought up there and visits often from his new home in Canada. The article describes the aquatic environment in Borneo and the wide variety of fish to be found there.

Thanks for the mention Caryl. I hope everyone likes the articles about the fishkeepers I met on my recent visit to NZ. I'm always looking for more articles to add to Aquarticles - I have lots of input from Canada and the US, and some from Australia, UK, India and Bermuda. I got three nice articles from "Pegasus NZ" recently, and it would be nice to get some more from New Zealand. If anyone has articles they have written I would be pleased to receive them. If they are on a personal website I would add a link to the site. Howard Norfolk. Aquarticles.com