Dyed Fish Sales Not Being Outlawed In Uk

[Arfie]

Yeah I was gobsmacked when mine replied as he's usually a useless ****, but that reply you have is very informative and interesting considerably better than the one I got.

Anyone else had a decent reply?

Arfie

 

[dcj38]

I dont live in the UK unfortunately so I guess I cant do it, but "GO ARFIE"!!!

do you dont mind if I copy and pasted this thread onto another forum that I am a member of as I see that you mentioned about other forums?

Btw all you mods out there, you have to pin this article!!!!!!!!

 

[anne24]

Just emailed mine now...... Good work Arfie

xx

 

[dcj38]

need to keep this thread going guys!!

 

[anne24]

Quite suprised I receieved this reply today

Thank you for your email dated 09 March 2006 concerning dyed fish.

Like you, I also find the practices of tattooing and dying fish to be completely unacceptable. I have forwarded your email on to the appropriate ministers in DEFRA. Thank you again for your concern and I will contact you again once I receive a response.

Rory Douglas

Research Assistant for Tobias Ellwood MP

House of Commons

London SW1A 0AA

www.tobiasellwood.com

 

[juliehainsworth]

I still havent received a reply from mine think I might email them again

 

[Phoenixfish]

yeh just like when you want something, just keep pestering the parents till they break

sent the email againnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

 

[linda1503]

Just copied pasted and emailed my MP.

 

[ringham]

I have e-mailed my MP and I think that it is really good what you have started Arfie

 

[morgan]

Good thread Arfie. Apart from what you are saying, another way of stopping dyed fish is to not buy anything at all from shops which stock them. One of my local lfs is on the list to say he will never stock dyed fish so I know he is ok to buy from.

 

[steppy104]

I just went to 3 fish stores today, and 2 of them both sold 'lipstick parrots'. God, just looking the things made me cringe at thoughts of how bad a tattoo hurts, and how that must feel on a fish. I can't even find pictures of them on google...

But they were truly horrid to look at.

They had red dye printed sloppily on their lips. On their sides were very cheap and barely even distinguishable pictures of flowers and random colors. Flat out disguisting to see. And I think both stores were buying their fish from the same place, cause it was the exact same paint design.

Makes me wonder if the workers even know what happens to them. But what do they care...Fish=Money and nothing more to them.

Edit-
http/www.langstropicalfish.com/gallery.a...pg&section=Fish
They had some with these exact same designs on them as well as the cheap and CRAPPY flower pic ones.

 

[Bloo]

This seems like bad news I'm afraid

 

[Arfie]

Ah but that was before Defra started getting letters/emails from MP's from all over the counrty

Keep fighting, until the bell rings.

As I said, we'd posssibly fail if we tried, but if we don't try we WILL fail.

Even if we don't get anything changed, I'm glad I made the effort to do something about it, and that many of you also did too, those who still can't be arsed, come on, until that bill is passed or rejected it CAN be changed if it is the will of the people to get it changed, it will take you no more than 2 minutes to cut and paste the text and try to do something.

Arfie

 

[Arfie]

I've had a reply from Matt Clarke from PFK

Many thanks for your email. It's me you wanted, as I write all of the news for Practical Fishkeeping. Funnily enough, I spotted some of your posts on the forums linking to the site the other week. I've been lurking there a little to see what's been happening. It's great to see others in the fishkeeping community trying to help.

I did consider setting up some software for the PFK site, so people could automatically send a letter to their local MP. However, unfortunately, as far as the forthcoming AWB goes, I think it's sadly going to be too late for any lobbying of MPs. The final reading of the Bill takes place in the Commons on Tuesday, and Defra has already said that this isn't going to include a ban on dyed fish. Much as I'd love to see them change their minds, I think it's rather unlikely.

It might still be worthwhile raising the awareness of this issue with MPs, though. When the Bill finally comes out, it will allow other laws to be pushed through, and this might provide an opportunity for us to campaign against some form of legislation to stop this. I'll mention this on the PFK blog.

The Dyed Fish Campaign (and hopefully my comments on the AWB) will be in The Telegraph on April 8th, so hopefully this will also bring the problem to the attention of others outside the fishkeeping world.

Best wishes,
Matt

I asked for permission to post this email and got this:

No worries. Happy for it to be posted where you like.

I'll add a blog entry encouraging readers to do write to their MPs when I'm in the office next week. I'll give you a plug in this also. (If that's OK with you!)

Thanks for your efforts!

Cheers,


Matt

So I think it's worth continuing to push, even though we may be too late to get what we wanted this time.

Arfie

 

[Bloo]

My goodness - what an amazingly fast response from Matt

Well, many of us tried - and so should other continue to do so.