This is an arguement that could go around and around in circles.
The thing is, every species that has been bred in captivity, or has yet to be bred, had to start from wild caught individuals, ideally, several different colonies of wild caught individuals in order to keep the bloodlines clean, any fish breeder that says that fish should not be taken from the wild, is to some part being hypocritical.
In an ideal world, we would all now only buy tank bred fish, and its great to see so many people on forums like this, that are having great sucess with such breeding projects.
but in order to keep the species pure and be able to meet demand, there would be a need for the breeders between them, to have a huge stock of wild caught fish.
At the end of the day, with so the huge number of L numbers now banned from export, we would need to decide if we really want to keep our fish or not, i am a hypocrite, and i know it, i love my plecs and i want more still, although i do know that wherever i buy them from, adds to the demand, and therefore someone out there will be smuggling more plecs out of brazil in order to meet this demand.
And as much as i would say that it is certainly wrong to back these smugglers, i do think that there are far more implications and considerations to bare in mind before i could say that this site will not allow adverts for wild caught fish.
It is a topic that we are currently discussing, but it is not something that i can see us making a decision on overnight.
In the mean time, please feel free to carry on with the discussion here, but remember the site rules, any personal attacks on people over their opinions will not be tolerated, argue with the post, not the poster, and keep it civil!
this is a topic that could be hugely interesting, but if not handled right, could easily end up getting out of hand and need closing, so please consider carefully your posts.