I voted, "Captive breeding will effect importation down the road, but not anytime soon."

However, I think the fourth choice, "Captive breeding will increase ball python popularity; therefore increasing importation" has already happened to a large extent. The drive to find more base morphs and the possibility of creating designer morphs in captivity certainly have brought this animal from the back burner of the herp hobby to the forefront.

At some point, however, there wont be many more base morphs to discover in the wild and there will be a lot of normals and possible hets that breeders small,medium, and large will need to sell off.