Step 4: Collect Your CITES Permit for Fisheries

Actions

4.1 If approved, the CITES permit will be registered and validated by the Ministry of Fisheries

4.2 Then, you can collect the CITES Permit for Fisheries 

4.3 In the event the application is rejected, you will be informed of the reasons for rejection

Note:

Requirements for Commodities listed under [CITES]

 

Live Rock, Hard Corals, Giant Clams

Apply: List of Species, shipment date, and quantity

Fisheries: Checks the list of species under CITES and then deducts it from the annual quota, which is set by the Research Section and submitted to the Management Authority and the Scientific Council for submission to the CITES secretariat.

Fisheries then issue a CITES permit and a Fisheries Export permit

Other Aquarium Species not listed under CITES, ornamental fish, soft corals, and invertebrates

Companies send in their application, and then the fisheries issue a Fisheries Export Permit.

‘All fisheries commodities require a Fisheries Export Permit’

Turtles, Humphead Wrasse

Permits are only issued for Scientific and Educational Purposes

Permits are only issued through an exemption letter from the PS Fisheries and Forests

Upon exemption, Fisheries then issues a CITES permit and a Fisheries Export permit.

Other species Trochus

Permits are only issued for Scientific and Educational Purposes

Permits are only issued through an exemption letter from the PS Fisheries and Forests

Upon exemption, a Fisheries export permit is then issued to accompany shipments.

Triton, Giant Helmet

Totally banned for taking, selling or offering, exposing for sale, or exporting.

BDM, Trochus

Companies send in their application, consignment size

The compliance officer is accompanied by Enforcement officers who visit companies to inspect if species are of the correct exporting size and weight before submitting a filled form of inspection to the FA and FO Licensing for the issuing of a Fisheries Export permit

Required Documents

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Fees or Charges

Free

Estimated Total Time

N/A

Contact Address

Ministry of Fisheries, National Support Office, Level M Takayawa Building, 360 Toorak Road


Phone: +679 3300 555

Fax: +679 3316 120
 

Website: www.fisheries.gov.fj

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