600,000? If someone can come up with 600,000 eels they must not be THAT endangered.
“600,000? If someone can come up with 600,000 eels they must not be THAT endangered.”
My thought exactly.
600,000? If someone can come up with 600,000 eels they must not be THAT endangered.
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Right! Just release them into the wild and get them off that list.
Please!
That’s what I was thinking!
Yeah, but I bet he feels eel about losing all of that black market booty.
He likely spawned them. This is another classic example of an animal listed endangered that is prolific in the private trade, among hobbyists and private aquaculturists. This is true of animals across the board.
Listing of endangered species precluded counting animals in captivity, that is, supported by private sector human activity. This is nothing more or less than government taking control of the natural environment. In fact governments do an abysmally terrible job of caring for the environment.
Our own EPA is a perfect case in point. Typically animals taken into custody by government agencies are destroyed. I dare say the last line of the article is not true.
Returning them to Spain is not even a faint possibility. Even if they were there are no protocols for releasing them into the wild. China, on the other hand, is perfectly capable of raising an entire new population. The eel would have been better served allowing it to be shipped to its destination. But, then, it is never about the eels. It is only about the government and its authority.
Hey are you anti-eel or something? You racist!
My thoughts exactly...
Exactly.