Seahorses: The legal part

not at the moment, still trying to work out how that came about, probably due to Knysna seahorse, but once again these laws arent made by people active in the industry , @Steve Warren might be able to help
 
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Fred d said:
was in a conversation a while back ... heard that the pony's from knysna are most illegal to keep / have . yet the are bred and then dried for export ...... :eek: .
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dallasg said:
but i do think that project has closed down
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Dunno heard a story they moved the project to JHB due to shipping costs but then again that could just be a story...:whistling:
 
I am confuse now? You are still allow to import seahorses in. But you are not allow to own/breed/sell/export the Knysna seahorse because is it protected by your law. Since it is protected, getting CITES is not going to happen. Is that about right?

Or are they trying to do a BLANKET ban on all species regardless?

Kind Regards,

Tim
 
i think a blanket ban, something about not wanting those sea horses to compete should they get in the waters etc...

they fail to realise that the price of the sea horse why would we release them
 
Espadon Marine was breading BLACK seahorses for the asian food market. They were situated in Midrand. This facility closed down some years ago.

They also used to grow abalone.
 
timinnl said:
Since it is protected, getting CITES is not going to happen. Is that about right?

Or are they trying to do a BLANKET ban on all species regardless?

Kind Regards,

Tim
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dallasg said:
i think a blanket ban, something about not wanting those sea horses to compete should they get in the waters etc...

they fail to realise that the price of the sea horse why would we release them
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Yup that is my take on it. And they a frightened our seahorses, which are endangered, will get infected by other seahorse diseases if they should get released into our waters.
 
Nemos Janitor said:
Yup that is my take on it. And they a frightened our seahorses, which are endangered, will get infected by other seahorse diseases if they should get released into our waters.
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That kinda does make sense in a scare mongering sort of way. Is there a site or any written info I can read up on?

Reminds me on the fuzzy logic on the Hawaiian ban and on the one they want to do to the H. zostera in Florida.

You be surprise, but people will and do release non- native species all of the time.

So is there a grand father clause for people with seahorses right now?

Kind Regards,

Tim
 
half cold, half warm, we have indian ocean and atlantic
 
MistaOrange said:
Dunno heard a story they moved the project to JHB due to shipping costs but then again that could just be a story...:whistling:
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I see there is some confusion about the old knysna seahorse breeding project. As far as I can remember, Knysna seahorses were once bred for research purposes at the ichtyology section in Grahamstown, very successfully. Bayworld, East London Aquarium, Two Oceans, uShaka and Pretoria National Zoo supplied each other and received some from the breeding project to display or introduce new genes to their own captive breeding stock.SA National Parks (Knysna Lagoon being in a National Park) would not allow any further collections from the wild as the breeding success at the various institutions was successful enough to not need collection from the wild. The specimens from Grahamstown were moved to another project at Port Nolloth where they were bred for a while. That population is no longer sustained.
Knysna seahorses were not bred for the traditional Chinese market as far as I am aware, in fact I heard indirectly that they are not suitable as they are the wrong shape and size.
 
Steve Warren said:
I see there is some confusion about the old knysna seahorse breeding project. As far as I can remember, Knysna seahorses were once bred for research purposes at the ichtyology section in Grahamstown, very successfully. Bayworld, East London Aquarium, Two Oceans, uShaka and Pretoria National Zoo supplied each other and received some from the breeding project to display or introduce new genes to their own captive breeding stock.SA National Parks (Knysna Lagoon being in a National Park) would not allow any further collections from the wild as the breeding success at the various institutions was successful enough to not need collection from the wild. The specimens from Grahamstown were moved to another project at Port Nolloth where they were bred for a while. That population is no longer sustained.
Knysna seahorses were not bred for the traditional Chinese market as far as I am aware, in fact I heard indirectly that they are not suitable as they are the wrong shape and size.
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Thanks for clearing it up Steve...
 
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