Hi!
We are planning to go to Costa Rica or Isla Margerita in March/April and I was wondering if it is possible to take fish home from there?
If I remeber right VEN is quite restrictive for exporting wildlife. Is this the same in CR? Any info or advice would be nice.
Taking fish home
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Costa Rica and Belize are IMpossible to take ANY organism away from.
Especially these 2 countries have protected a lot of wildlife (more than any other in Central America), and I can say pretty sure that exporting (or smuggling) any live creatures (including plants, seeds, cuts etc!) is completely prohibited!
How it's with Venezuela I don't know; but from what I've heard, it's pretty severe as well.
And those jails in that part of the world aren't the "Holiday Inns" like we have here; but genuine Hell-holes where you can be very glad if you manage to get out alive and non-infected after a few decades of rotting away in the most miserable circumstances you can imagine or worse.
don't screw around with Latin-American cops and law enforcement.....those guys don't take kindly to such things.
Especially these 2 countries have protected a lot of wildlife (more than any other in Central America), and I can say pretty sure that exporting (or smuggling) any live creatures (including plants, seeds, cuts etc!) is completely prohibited!
How it's with Venezuela I don't know; but from what I've heard, it's pretty severe as well.
And those jails in that part of the world aren't the "Holiday Inns" like we have here; but genuine Hell-holes where you can be very glad if you manage to get out alive and non-infected after a few decades of rotting away in the most miserable circumstances you can imagine or worse.
don't screw around with Latin-American cops and law enforcement.....those guys don't take kindly to such things.
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I am with Sid with regards to Costa Rica. Other than Brazil, it is the last country I would try to take anything out of. I am really not sure what, if anything, you would find on Margarita Island. PM me for some additional information.
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map of IM
I found this and it shows some creeks? or maybe channels. Im trying to find on fishbase what occurs on IM but its not sortable by sweet/salt so its a huge list...starting with anchovis
edit: Ive checked through the list and this is all I found:
Rivulus hartii
Rivulus holmiae
and this a sweet/brack/saltwater pipefish
Syngnathus scovelli
I found this and it shows some creeks? or maybe channels. Im trying to find on fishbase what occurs on IM but its not sortable by sweet/salt so its a huge list...starting with anchovis
edit: Ive checked through the list and this is all I found:
Rivulus hartii
Rivulus holmiae
and this a sweet/brack/saltwater pipefish
Syngnathus scovelli
cheers
Christian
Christian