Aquariums becoming prohibited in Canada ?

[Rmckoy]

Winnipeg Considers Banning Many Aquarium Fish (and many other pets, too!) - AMAZONAS Magazine

Winnipeg, Canada has announced a sweeping series of proposed rules that, if enacted, would ban the ownership of many types of aquarium life (both fish and invertebrates) along with many other pets under the City's Responsible Pet Ownership By-Law. Such a ban would set the tone for similar bans...

www.reef2rainforest.com

After reading this article from coral magazine .
Winnipeg could change what’s deemed as pets and what’s allowed ?

if this actually can go further than proposed . What’s the chance of other Canadian provinces following suit ?

 

[Anthony Kochevar]

I read the article. With only captive bred fish and no inverts, you could have a tank with rock, sand and a couple of common clownfish. Can't even have a cleanup crew.

 

[DocRose]

Honestly, after reading this it sounds like a load of crap. There’s no reasons given for the bans on the aquatic life and those that do have reasons listed are laughable. This smells fishy…pun intended. Like somebody is greasing somebody’s pocket. Don’t ask me why. But usually in politics when moves are being made that don’t serve a benefit to the general public, there’s money involved.

 

[scolson]

This seem like local axe grinding. I'm not opposed to some regulation on this hobby, but this seem very targeted and completely unenforcible for the home aquarist. Therefore it smells of targeting some local businesses.

 

[DaddyFish]

I read the article. I take no issue with governmental regulations over species that require law enforcement to get involved when improperly homed or irresponsibly released. This just makes me say... "Glad I don't live in Canada!"

 

[N.Sreefer]

If the atlantic provinces adopt this nonsense I will be part of what will be a booming black market until the government smarten up. Its like prohibition of alcohol itll never work. And its a total invasion of personal freedoms.

 

[blaxsun]

Being Canadian, this article is so embarrassing... Then again, we’ve literally let the lunatics out of the asylum to run things for the past few years...

There are so many things wrong with this proposed legislation on so many levels, but it will literally be unenforceable as you can simply order anything out of province.

 

[Kfactor]

They have to take away ppls hobbies it makes them feel better about them selves lol

 

[Sean Clark]

Move to the U.S. where at least you have the illusion of freedom. Baning reef tanks is so far down the list; I doubt it would ever happen.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Things like that just open up the black market. It will end up with swarms of people driving across the border to get supplies. As if people weren’t doing it already anyway before covid

 

[brandon429]

You’ll take my montipora when you pry it from my cold,



eh?

 

[Sean Clark]

You’ll take my montipora when you pry it from my cold,



eh?

Charlton Heston... watch out for this one... lol

 

[brandon429]

truly I can only envision the jim carrey doing heston mode I’m a 90s guy

that is amazing though, that a community would police out reef tank inverts, Bobby stick enforcement daaang.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

truly I can only envision the jim carrey doing heston mode I’m a 90s guy

that is amazing though, that a community would police out reef tank inverts, Bobby stick enforcement daaang.

It’s even more amazing when you consider that the same government decriminalized marijuana that is now considering to criminalize inverts.

 

[blaxsun]

You’ll take my montipora when you pry it from my cold,
eh?

...Cold, dead tank. Seriously though, this gives new meaning to the term “Tang Police”. What’s the punishment for unlicensed crustaceans? And are they then going to return them to the pacific rim? This whole exercise would actually be funny if it weren’t so absolutely pathetic...

 

[ZoWhat]

Winnipeg just opened a Black Market. Fargo is only 200miles South

If this happens in the U.S., I dare the State Of Ohio to get a search warrant to search my premises.

What they gonna do, test my sewage for SW salinity? Go for it... I'll dump my water change waste water on their flower garden at City Hall at 3am. just watch me

I'd probably move my tank in the basement and play "Catch me if you can" home version of the game


.

 

[Sean Clark]

It’s even more amazing when you consider that the same government decriminalized marijuana that is now considering to criminalize inverts.

Those inverts though... It's only a matter of time... Haven't you seen Terminator 2? Pretty sure that liquid metal thing was an invert. Just sayin'.

 

[Malcontent]

 

[davidcalgary29]

Winnipeg Considers Banning Many Aquarium Fish (and many other pets, too!) - AMAZONAS Magazine

Winnipeg, Canada has announced a sweeping series of proposed rules that, if enacted, would ban the ownership of many types of aquarium life (both fish and invertebrates) along with many other pets under the City's Responsible Pet Ownership By-Law. Such a ban would set the tone for similar bans...

www.reef2rainforest.com

After reading this article from coral magazine .
Winnipeg could change what’s deemed as pets and what’s allowed ?

if this actually can go further than proposed . What’s the chance of other Canadian provinces following suit ?

Pfft. This is a working document that's being shopped to community "stakeholders", and not the final language of a by-law that's been enacted. It's also not terribly unreasonable, as it allows for marine fish "expecting" [their misspelling, not mine] those which are wild-caught. And those that are expected to grow beyond 14 inches in aquaria and those with "wide-ranging" habitats. Clearly, residents should rethink that last-minute panic-buy of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna smolts in anticipation of the 2022 ban, lest they run afoul of ruler-toting by-law officials.

The upside, of course, is that the Jird will remain "allowable" in the city. Never having heard of this mystery, images of a jackal/bird chimaera danced around in my head until I made google my friend. I'm just impressed that owning one of these is apparently a thing in Winnipeg.

 

[Squidward]

Canada is turning into the next Australia it seems... I can't even go there anymore unless I put the poison in my body.