SPC Live Reef Rish Information Bulletin #18 - November 2008

The Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) (BCF) is a popular marine aquarium fish that has been collected in the Banggai Islands of Indonesia for at least the last 15 years, according to fish collectors there. This account attempts to identify some of the issues surrounding the conservation and trade in this species, and the area in which it is found. It also proposes a number of suggestions for actions, without which the management of this species and its wild habitats is likely to fail.

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Hewitt, C.L., Campbell, M.L. and Gollasch, S. (2006). Alien Species in Aquaculture. Considerations for responsible use.

IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. viii + 32 pp.

Aquaculture is an important economic activity in the coastal areas of many countries. It offers opportunities to alleviate poverty, boosts employment, helps community development, reduces overexploitation of natural coastal resources, and enhances food security, particularly in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Due to the increasing worldwide demand for aquatic products, aquaculture is one of the most important and fastest growing sectors within fisheries. Currently most aquaculture facilities in the marine environment, particularly in developing countries, use non-native or alien species, mainly to reduce costs by using readilyavailable research and development outputs.

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Transport guidelines - PACKER'S GUIDELINES Ps/2 from CITES. Ps/2 – Fishes that would damage polythene bags

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Transport guidelines - ADVICE TO CARRIERS from CITES

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Transport guidelines - PACKER'S GUIDELINES Ps/1 from CITES. Fishes, except those species that cannot be contained in polythene bags

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Transport guidelines - PACKER'S GUIDELINES Inv/1 from CITES.

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International trade in live stony corals (Order Scleractinia) for the aquarium hobby has increased over the last decade, from approximately 200,000 specimens in 1990 to 750,000 in 1999 (WCMC data).  Industry representatives have expressed a desire to double this volume in the next 10 years.  Scleractinia are listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which generates almost all of the available data on international coral trade.

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An alphabetic list of contracting parties for CITES. Can also be retrieved from  http://www.cites.org/eng/disc/parties/alphabet.shtml

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The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. The general aim of the system is to provide an explicit, objective framework for the classification of the broadest range of species according to their extinction risk. However, while the Red List may focus attention on those taxa at the highest risk, it is not the sole means of setting priorities for conservation measures for their protection.

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