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Posted: **Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:58 pm**

Just spoke to someone who I have bought zebs from in the past and he said that there will be no more wild caughts on sale in the coming months/years as he said he has heard that the main group behind the wild caught 'smuggling ring' have been caught and are now in prison.
He said to look on the ibama website for details, but after searching I can't find any evidence of this being true.

Has anyone else heard this of is it just rumours?

Posted: **Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:22 pm**

Hi this looks like what you are looking for:

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... ?p=3398118

above link has an English translation of the below

http://noticias.pgr.mpf.gov.br/noticias ... rnamentais

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:36 am**

thanks for that, good news for the zebs at last

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:04 am**

Is it going to affect U.S market?

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:07 am**

Good news!

Only really stupid people buy protected animals.

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:45 pm**

Good news for the zebs & other fish in the wild, plenty of F1s around for everybody.
Hope the prisons are not as soft as the UK, giving them sky tv & playstations hope they get real punishment.

Posted: **Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:35 pm**

Watched banged up abroad with some of the Brazilian prisons on there they certainly dont get sky or food or water

Posted: **Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:21 am**

Still going on:

http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/for/1410117205.html

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