It would appear that Heiko Bleher was today arrested for accidentally forgetting to remove some fish from his luggage as he tried to board a plane.

babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=d...p;btnTrUrl=Translate

Heiko and Natasha are being held in prison and no trial is date has yet been set.

there a petition out to secure his release already

www.freeheiko.com

well he did discover lots of species so why not

Seamus

Someone should set up a petition to get the website to translate abit better too!!!

this the story from the PFK site

www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1788

I do feel sorry for him but he should know that the good old days of grap it and bring it back for study are gone and it is good that Brazalian Gov are cracking down.

Come on guys who accidentally forgets to remove some fish from your luggage! and please note "In 1964 Bleher started a commercial operation collecting and exporting fishes out of Brazil for the aquarium trade"

He tried to smuggle and got caught, Fish/Drugs/Diamonds whats the diff?

Those fish must have been worth the risk, Rare/Marketable dont know

And was it his 1st time?, I guess we will see.

if the reports are correct then i have to newrossman while i would love to be able to get new species asap if this is done this way than i would rather do with out!

profit been but first without consideration of the consequences is not excitable not alone is it wrong but there is also the risk of undiscovered disease which could do harm to native species were as these new species are immune. this is a bad example of profit first

also if by this theft these fish being described then the the right full discover has lost all credit due

in the early days of aids discovery it was know as hdlv4 named by french science team this was later changed when it was discovered that this team stole data from another source the french did it because there would be profit to be made from this

And Heiko Bleher it would seem is guilty of the same!

hopefully this is a miss understanding! and a licence had expired or clerical error

otherwise it is unexceptable and deserves a punishment.

I don't think he was taking them from Brazil for profit. All the specimens that Heiko was carrying where in alcohol and formalin solution.

Hi Mate

Just read the report on Simply Discus. It appears his guide and photographer were arrested as well. He may be good at his job, but he did noe have a licence for collecting what appears DNA samples. also the fact that it was in hand luggage!!!!!!

mickeywallace wrote:
if the reports are correct then i have to newrossman while i would love to be able to get new species asap if this is done this way than i would rather do with out!

profit been but first without consideration of the consequences is not excitable not alone is it wrong but there is also the risk of undiscovered disease which could do harm to native species were as these new species are immune. this is a bad example of profit first

also if by this theft these fish being described then the the right full discover has lost all credit due

in the early days of aids discovery it was know as hdlv4 named by french science team this was later changed when it was discovered that this team stole data from another source the french did it because there would be profit to be made from this

And Heiko Bleher it would seem is guilty of the same!

hopefully this is a miss understanding! and a licence had expired or clerical error

otherwise it is unexceptable and deserves a punishment.
i think the same as you
he is not a child and he shuld know if that is illegal

aparrently these fish where all dead and in a solution for preservation, some of these are believed to be new species, maybe it was an honest mistake as they where not live fish therefore not for sale only classification. he is a man forefront in the discovery of new species i personally hope it was a mistake as i'd hate us all to miss out on new fish for our hobby as if smuggling is going on in such a way Brazil may completely close its borders to this trade and then what will happen to our fish... inbreeding makes poor fish remember the odd wild caught to boost stock quality is always needed
Seamus

ok. But he can make that in legal way, not a smugling hiden in a bag.
just remember if the brazil is a poor country only goods what they have there is a rivers, rain forest, animals, plants and other natural goods, then they have right to take care about own goods. we just have to lern if even if they are poore countris they have exacly the same rights as we have here. if you are guest only in other countris you have to respect a law
just look how many species use to be place on CITES list
in this year join to them
lots of botia, labeo, and many other species,