Legality question

[fencer]

CITES is an international agreement not setup by usfw

[wickedfrags]

generally yes, but not always, depends on the country they are imported from

Originally Posted by lastlight

Oh so all corals that the wholesalers sell to the retailers came with CITES? Sorry I guess I could actually do some reading on this too.

true, but Toronto got into the game of "re-exporting" corals to the US many years back......you just need a good guy over there to pick corals for you

Originally Posted by fishytime

well that part of things is just simple math.......Canada is small potatoes, when you compare it to the European and U.S. markets.........collectors/distributors will appease the the big markets with the "cherry" corals.......but at least they throw us a bone up here every once in a while......

correct, and it is voluntary, not all countries choose to participate, Tonga being an example (at least 3-4 years back anyway). You don't get a CITES when you import from Tonga.

Originally Posted by fencer

CITES is an international agreement not setup by usfw

[naesco]

Originally Posted by wickedfrags.com

generally yes, but not always, depends on the country they are imported from



true, but Toronto got into the game of "re-exporting" corals to the US many years back......you just need a good guy over there to pick corals for you



correct, and it is voluntary, not all countries choose to participate, Tonga being an example (at least 3-4 years back anyway). You don't get a CITES when you import from Tonga.

http://cites.org/I/new/cites_map_l.gif non CITES members