Surveys on the of Domestic Insect Pet Market in Taiwan and a Proposal for the Management Strategy, Quarantine of Imported Living Insects
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Lo, Yu-Che
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Affected by Japanese people's fondness of living insects and the fads of keeping them as pets, dealers of domestic pet market import living insects from abroad and sell them. Those insects have become a popular commodity in recent years. This project reveals that, according to the investigation, locally there are 15 sites, including pet shops and wedsites, which sell living insects from abroad. There are 17 genus and 128 species of adult and larval stag beetles, and 13 genus and 35 species of adult and larval rhinocero beetles from abroad which are now currently available in the domestic insect pet market. We can infer that living insects from abroad have already prevailed in the domestic pet market. According to the survey, there are 71.19% interviewees who know what a “invasive species ” means, and 90.30% interviewees know that without a proper handling of the insects coming from abroad, and by any means accidentally letting them roam freely in the environment way cause a catastrophe in the local ecosystem. Apparently, most of the people consider that the invading species will do damage to the ecosystem of Taiwan. However, with a proper handling of the insects as a premise, about 55.68% of the interviewees approve of legally importing and having stag beetles and giant beetles as a pet, while the others do not think is unnecessary to legally import those beetles. The data below are the current consumption status of the people involving the insect pet market. The EV of the consumption status of the consumers buying exotic living insects is 7292.01 NTD, the net product of the living insect is 1 billions fifity millions between 1 billions 2 hundred millions NTD, and the EV of consumption status of the pupils is 373.52 NTD, the net product of living insects from abroad projects to 7 millions 470 thousands NTD. The EV of the consumption status of the consumers buying relative commodities of insect pets is 10894.95 NTD, the net product of commodity is 1 billions 5 hundred fifity millions between 1 billions 7 hundred millions NTD, and the EV of consumption status of the pupils is 373.52 NTD, the net product of commodity projects to 376 millions 23 thousands NTD. A team of scholars and dealers attended a meeting debating the importing quarantine process draft, which validates the quarantine process. Using the biology of insect pets, Pet Registration Management Regulation and Animal Protection Law, etc as reference, we could devise a comprehensive management method. The ultimate goal is to find a balance between the protection of the ecosystem of Taiwan and the demand of the market.
Subjects
寵物昆蟲
Insect Pet Market
Type
thesis
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