A couple years ago I wanted to bring some Seahorses into Canada, before they were on Cities. After all the hoops to jump through I would have had to pay $85 on top of everything else for each box regardless of the content. This is one of the reasons they try to pack so much stuff into one box when the LFS gets stuff. Whether they have $100 worth of livestock or $25000 they have to pay it. Now as to what it was for, I don't remember I know I didn't have to pay it when I brought live shrimp into Canada but they made me sign a document saying they were meant solely as a food source for aquatic animals and not for pets/breeding purposes.
Canadian Border Services has a web site with contact numbers, I recommend you allow yourself a number of hours to sort out what they have to say.
Douglas
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