Quote Originally Posted by RGreen454ss
I saw a news report a few months ago talking about exporting Red-eared Sliders to Asian countries for food and in the report it says that we export 4-5 times the reptiles we import!!!! 85% is Red-eared turtles.
Its hard for me to believe that we export more than we import but it could be true as there are many many turtle farms in this country that produce hundreds of thousands of turtles each a year and its tuff to even get in the door and buy from some of them as they are sold out from previous customer orders from last year.

I've recently been trying to buy 2,000 alligator snappers for an export and it has taken over 50 phone calls over the last several weeks to find someone who may have the left over stock and who may want to take the time to direct ship them for me (they cannot come into the state of florida).

Brian from BHB has said it best, this industry is hundreds of times larger than most believe it to be.