I feel like you are putting words in my mouth. I have never said I was against sale of wild caught. I said I thought it was harder to manage because it is more costly to enforce and that if we don't have detailed, long term studies it is more risky for populations.

Despite b_rickards use of the word ban, what he described was not a ban. A ban is when you can do nothing, no capture, no possession, no breeding, no sales. His proposal is the most cost effective and realistic, IMHO. There was nothing he said that would prevent you from selling some adults to US turtle hobbyist and farmers. It would not prevent foriegn hobbyist from obtaining cbb breed stock and it would not prevent foriegn food markets from buying small, cbb turtles which they could then raise to processing size. It is easier to enforce because wildlife officials can just inspect boxes as they go out, rather than having to have field officers all over the place.

So I am not philosophically opposed to all sales of wild caught. I only responded because I thought b_rickard's idea was pretty good and it was unwarranted to flat out say it's people like him that cause bans. I do not know him either.

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