henward Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 fact of the matter is, the govt just dose not care about this hobby. probably beacuse there is no economical gain from it. so you apply they just screw wtih you perhaps because they can. some guy takes over a new desk and decides to make new changes....for what reasons? none. the end of the day, if you awnt rays, big monsters etc taht really cannot establish in nz anyway - then perhaps moving to canada where the importation rules is very relaxed:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 then perhaps moving to canada where the importation rules is very relaxed Best option IMO, if I won lotto I'd be off tomorrow, snowboard all winter, mountain bike all summer, large tanks full of awesome fish. How aboot it eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 fact of the matter is, the govt just dose not care about this hobby. probably beacuse there is no economical gain from it. this is a multi million dollar hobby in nz would be interesting to know exactly how much tax is gathered from it also exact amount spent annually and people employed in it from lfs workers to courier drivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 Some new organisms have been added to the list recently, although salt water rather than fresh. My understanding after talking to the guy that arranged it was it costs 10-20k and a couple of years per organism. Plus there is no guarantee no matter how well dotted your I's are that it will be added to the list, from what I could saw it almost looked like they felt that they needed to only allow a few new one's on to discourage too many applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted July 3, 2010 Report Share Posted July 3, 2010 There are different levels of application, depending on the risk of the organism. To get a new species of cichlid or bichir added that is already similar to species already allowed usually only requires a "rapid assessment" which costs about $500. For things involving CITES, potentially harmful species (snakeheads?) etc you would probably be required to do the more thorough and expensive application. When I get some spare time I might modify my two posts about the geophagus, link it to a few references and see if they can answer my question of "what is a new species".... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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