EU ban on ornamental fish/invert trade?

[LilCope]

Hi all,

So this has been a topic I have been seeing all over the place. For my senior project my group has decided to look into this topic to make it a case study.

From what I understand: There is a possibility that the EU ( are there any others? U.S? ) is going to put a ban on trade on ornamental fish and inverts ( are there any other (e.g., live rock, sand, etc.)).

Information that I am look for is:
1.) Where did this originate from and why?
2.) Where is it in terms of being enforced? ( I have heard that it is just going to be mentioned at a conference.. which is not a big deal..? )

Any information you have would be awesome - especially in terms of the U.S

The following are links on this topic: ( if there any any conflictions with posting links let me know. I'm more than willing to edit)

stakeholders:

 

Govt Reps:

Ministry of fisheries, trade and environment

U.S fish and wildlife service

 

NGO:
TRAFFIC
WWF

IMA
MAC ( x )

OATA-> hobbyist. u.k. promoting trade

 

Random:

scientists

collectors/importers

 

Regions:

SE asia

S pacific

Australia

Europe

U.S

 

 

http://www.ornamentalfish.org/uncatogorized/hawaii-proposals-could-scupper-its-aquarium-industry-forever - Hawaii closing fish export- aka aquarium industry

 

http://www.ornamentalfish.org/hands-off-my-hobby - “hands off my hobby” campiagn along with responses to several stakeholders

 

https://www.defenders.org/sites/default/files/publications/ecological-impacts-and-practices-of-the-coral-reef-wildlife-trade.pdf

 

http://www.nanoreefblog.com/nano-reef-news/eu-wants-to-ban-the-import-of-fish-coral

 

http://www.bioflux.com.ro/docs/AACL_5.2.8.pdf

 

http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/coraltriangle/

http://www.spc.int/digitallibrary/doc/fame/infobull/lrf/17/lrf17_11_reksodihardjo.pdf

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/new_initiatives_to_clean_up_the_global_aquarium_trade/2660/

http://www.wri.org/indonesia-people-protect-livelihoods-and-reefs-wakatobi-national-park

 

https://savethephilippinecoralreefs.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/european-union-suspends-coral-imports-from-indonesia-and-governments-can-also-disallow-import-of-cyanide-caught-fish/ - background on isue.

http://www.icrs2012.com/proceedings/manuscripts/ICRS2012_19C_1.pdf - International trade in hard corals: review of management, sustainability and trends

 

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/3/aafeature - info on topic- references papers (good) and gives data.

http://coralreef.noaa.gov/education/educators/resourcecd/background/resources/aquarium_trade_bm.pdf - info on MAC (marine aquarium council) certification and benefits

http://www.icran.org/pdf/CoralMiningIssueBrief.pdf - lots of good info for background, including international coral trade

 

http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Review-of-exotic-pet-trade-15ea.aspx - Ireland already did what was going to happen. this is a review.

 

http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/90/art%253A10.1023%252FA%253A1011369015080.pdf?auth66=1427135508_5acf2dda377d4db023be9d95e8b38bbd&ext=.pdf - bruckner 2001 - CITES and coral paper

http://www.ots.ac.cr/rbt/attachments/suppls/sup53-1%20ALMC31/14-BrucknerImp.pdf - bruckner 2005 - management and the good it does

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ia/agreements/global_agreements/cites_page/cites.html - info on CITES

 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00265.x/pdf - long term trends on coral imports - includes history

-Peter

[seuadr]

Seems like once a year or so this gets discussed. There are several petitions etc floating around on various reef forums from several different years...

[LilCope]

Likely due to lobby groups pushing and it never being addressed at the meetings/conventions.

However, do you have any knowledge on this topic?

[jbb]

Likely due to lobby groups pushing and it never being addressed at the meetings/conventions.

 

However, do you have any knowledge on this topic?

 

You might find some useful info here : http://www.pijac.org/ADF

[LilCope]

Thank you.
It seems this is a lot larger than I thought with further research . It looks like Hawaii has put in a ban for trade, and some local US states want to ban "exotic pets" as well.