On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:42:48 -0800, Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Afterthought: I'm not trying to be a hard-ass, here -- honest. But my
> thinking is that if there are *laws* about taking endangered species (from
> woodpeckers to tigers, not just fish), they must be based on something
> more organizationally authoritative than a local aquarium, however groovy
> that local aquarium is. "You are sentenced to 3 years of community
> service for keeping that blue-footed lake trout, because the Lake
> Winnebago Aquarium says they're endangered", doesn't seem probable.
> So I'm just looking for what that real authority might be.

http://www.fws.gov/Endangered/wildlife.html

-sw