It Has Started

[pastabake]

Its important to note though that through the majority of that 4.6 billion years the planet has been uninhabitable to humans.

While you are correct that records only began relatively recently, they are not the only source of data ... ice cores and tree rings etc ...

As for the OT, its great on two counts. (1) As the costs of importing goes up, the value of home grown goes up. At the moment many common species cannot be given away. (2) Transporting fish around the world not only results in many casualties, but it simply isn't a sensible way of using a finite resource.

 

[Piltdownpaul]

I agree with andywg totally with his arguement. For too long the media bang on about this climate change but in the life of the earth -man has been on the earth for 4 seconds of its life so far-hardly a way to base an assumption on how the weather is getting warmer year on year........Makes my blood boil-and that aint global warming either!
So personally i doubt the price of fish will rise to a huge amount-This may do the hobby a favour anyway by decreasing the view that fish are so cheap as to be throwaway. If you had to pay more for a fish lesser mortals might be prepared to look after it more but maybe i'm dreaming!

 

[geo7x]

but it'd be nice just walkin round a lake and seeing a shoal of thousands upon thousands of cardinal tetras or something

Yeah, along with many other tropical fish that could wipe out our native aquatic species, sounds great. This act could also get tropical fish banned from being imported, like snakeheads in many parts of the US after one was released into the wild and there was a scare that it would have an impact on native fish (similar ban will almost definitely happen to us in the UK in the forseeable future).

As said on the previous thread if air cargo and freighting are going to be reduced (can't see it happening by any significant amount anytime soon) then I think there would be more important imports for us to worry about than fish imports.