Question on gov laws

[braddo]

At this stage the laws don't affect me but I am thinkig for the future as currently I am under 5000L of storage and 50m square area but with a bit of luck this will change within the next 18months - 2 years as my  client(so to speak for want of a better word) requires me to produce more for them.

[Ash]

[quote:beac07d87d="ndoboi"]Is this what you're looking for Ash?

http://www.affashop.gov.au/PdfFiles/ornament_fish6.pdf

Cheers
Steve[/quote:beac07d87d]

That's exactly what I was after!   Finally I've seen the Grey List!  Scary that a bunch of my fish (RDs & Texas) are in the list.  :evil:

Braddo - Figure 2 & Figure 3 (pages 22 & 23 of PDF) together don't seem to discount the hobby breeder if they have less than 10 000l of water & sell to a LFS directly - isn't that what most people do?  (plus sales on forums).    I suppose an ad on a forum makes it a taxable business according to Fig 2 though, which sucks.

What page does it say breed allowable imports only?

[Chump]

Hi,

There are a few oddities about the laws in QLD and how they are enforced.
I know of people that have been raided by fisheries because they were selling their excess fish to a wholesaler and shops without an aquaculture licence. They were told it didn't matter how large you are if you sell fish you are breeding to wholesalers and shops then you are considered an aquaculture business and therefore need to an aquaculture licence.

You will probably never get a licence to breed any foreign fish species that is not on the import list as they are considered "undesirable species" and fisheries departments wouldn't be encouraging large scale breeding of them. The general hope of the legislators is that the fishes not on the list would just die out and disappear from the aquarium scene. This has happened to quite a few species already.

Just be thankful for the rules we have here. I asked NT fisheries about this very thing and they said that they consider anyone selling any aquarium fish they have bred in any amount to anyone as an aquaculture business and as such needing a licence or they could be prosecuted.

C

[braddo]

It is actually in the current laws which are available from the dpi not the propsed laws. I was around in the hobby when people I knew where getting raided and it wasn't fun to see if you were going to be next.That was about 8-9 years ago I was then the president of the sunshine coast aquarium society and its reprisentative for the what was once offapa meetings.