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yes kingkong, thought provoking for sure and i guess you could look at this from any angle. my thought only come from what i know.
im sure if i had koi "plaguing" my river id be a tad peed about it.
the problem fish in the big rivers are brown europeans i think.
let there by people that didnt know it was not such a great idea.
you cant educate everyione that letting non indigenous fish out into the wild has repurcusions for the environment.
if there were any coloured japnanese style koi in those systems to begin with i imagine only the brownish ones would survive the predators.
they have carp round ups and also ive heard its aginst the law to catch a carp and let it go back in.
its just my thoughts that by allowing top line koi into the country as broodstock then it would not affect the rivers anymore than the koi that are already produced on farms here. you simply cannot have koi in the country with no risk.
but koi are here and here to stay, they are produced in large numbers legally.
new top line japanese lineage fish wouldnt really increase the risk.
what i think is that when you have a law that stops the top line being imported for our breeding pool then you have a situation where people, great koi lovers, will break the law and import fish illegally to have that genetic and this results in fish that could possibly contain the KH virus being brought into the country instead of having a fish that has been health checked appropriatley.
im pretty sure that the virus has actually recently entered the country via this pathway so i believe that the rule has had a negative effect in this regard. everyone would like some nice fish like the ones we see on the internet right?
i think the rule against importation was originally concieved to avoid koi running wild in the rivers but when you have an industy that produces koi here anyway its up to people to be responsible with koi so they dont get out.
to say the rivers are well protected becasue of the non importation of koi laws is probably a false belief today seeing as there are probably around ten million koi living in ponds farms and tanks in this county already legally.
i just cant see any harm being done by allowing a few disease free batches of top koi lines inot the country for breeding purposes.
i think it would be a postive only.
im not sure but it may even be possible to seek permission to do such a thing.
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