Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Has anyone seen this call for legislation?
I found the article to be interesting and well written. I am not an expert on exotic animals so cant comment on what statements are questionable or not but it makes perfect sense to have mandatory licensing for dangerous animals. You have to have a licence for a dog so why not a 12 foot snake.I can also see a logic in trying to control certain species of fish. As the article states just like Florida(with the snakes) our ecosystem could be affected by the introduction of fish that are not found here naturally.
It is happening in Africa where pacu were introduced to control excess vegetation and when the food source diminished they actually out-competed the other fish which subsequently died off. This had a disastrous effect on the river and food sources for the local people. (These Pacu are now believed to have become carnivorous)
There was a fantastic program on recently about it. One of the "River Monsters" documentaries.
Any way maybe I am taking too simplistic a look at it but I honestly cant see the Irish Government spending any time or money on this in the next ten years unless they could see a potential revenue source that they could use to further mess up the economy.
Pat
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This was years ago and I hope I remember it correctly now.
Basically they brought in a law that was so unclear that each County interpreted it individually which meant completely different laws in different areas, highly confusing.
I'm from the westcoast and in Gothenburg they completely banned snakes over three meters as well as venomous snakes and put in a requirement of all snakes to be registered.
In reality this meant that in one County anyone could keep any snake no matter how poisonous while a few miles down the road a common corn snake had to be registered.
My personal view is that the law punished serious keepers that wanted to stay within the law while anyone who did not care still could acquire a venomous animal without registration.
If done correctly I would have hoped that a law could protect these animals as well as us humans as it seems far too common that people buy these animals without knowledge how to tend for them.
I really hope that Ireland does this properly, if they do.
Melander
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