Is this what it looks like?

[infernalis]

poaching from the wild would only happen while tetra's fetch a high price, the answer might be for the government to [for a short period ] subsidize licensed breeders to produce large numbers for release on a given day to the hobby at reasonable prices ............do you know what Wayne reading what i'v just written doesn't even convince me ,so forget that idea i'm stumped

No worries..

High price or not, even at $50 a snake, the chance to make a couple hundred for just catching some garters is too tempting with our crumbling economy.

There is a person who is well known for scooping up puget (blue stripe) garters, gravid or otherwise and shipping them all over at $100 per snake, and he makes some serious money doing it.. so something "new" to the hobby with the desirability of a tetra would certainly have people out hunting for them.