A UK supplier has imported four coral species for the first time since the Queensland-UK import ban was imposed in 2021. Since then, all corals fromThe Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, have been prevented from importinto Britain due to a lack of data that the UK’s scientific authority, the JNCC, required to tick off their collection and trade as non-detrimental to their numbers, and their species survival long term.
Tropical Marine Centre has been working alongside the JNCC since then, the first non-detriment agreement has been signed off on four species/genera, and last week TMC imported the first Catalaphyllia jardinei, Blastomussa spp, Cycloseris spp. and Homophyllia bowerbanki since the ban.
Implications
Any lifting of a ban based on actual data is welcomed, and UK importers, wholesalers, and retailers have suffered significant financial losses from prohibitions in the past. The ban came in after permit providers noticed a significant spike in the number of corals coming in from Australia, with no real data on how the increased collection was affecting the GBR long term.
That spike coincided with a total ban on Indonesian corals, however, so it’s no surprise that when the world was denied corals from Indonesia, we all turned to Australia instead. Now Indonesia has opened again, and demand for some Aussie corals has balanced out, accompanied by new, much more regulated, and restricted quotas by the QLD fishery itself.
If theIndonesian coral ban如果恰逢昆士兰州的禁令和夏威夷鱼类禁令,那对英国水生工业来说将是灾难性的,许多商店和企业都会关闭。
英国从印度尼西亚和西澳大利亚州(未被禁止)和来自印度尼西亚的Blastomussa进行了访问,但英国业余爱好的胜利再次是Homaphyllia Bowerbanki的开放。我们喜欢弓箭手,他们的丰富色彩在英国商店和礁石水族馆中被错过了。
No Scolys or Micro lords
Homophyllia australis, (Scolys,) and Micromussa lordhowensis (Acan lords) are noticeable by their absence from the partial lifting of the ban however, and according to recent data released by theQueensland Coral Fishery Ecological Risk Assessment, 2022, who classified them at “Extreme Risk,” they won’t be coming back anytime soon.