biju708
Member
Hi Friends,
In my country Malta(Central Mediterranean) It's illegal to import Hard Corals and most invertebrates only soft corals are allowed and not even live rock or live sand.
The problem is that our environmental department is very much miss informed and when you try to import something they will immediately refuse because according to them someone might throw the hard coral in the sea and it will destroy or alter the natural enviornment of our island. The funny thing is that other European countries do import hard corals as a matter of fact I have to go to Austria buy hard corals from there and then get back to Malta since we are part of the EU they do not question why I have corals in my luggage and I simply go through. As you all can imagine this way it's very expensive. Since I am not a marine specialist all my attempts to convince these people went in vain and was hoping that maybe someone can give me some pointers or maybe point me to some websites where I can get information on the matter and get back to the environmental department with some studies to backup my points of discussion.
In my country Malta(Central Mediterranean) It's illegal to import Hard Corals and most invertebrates only soft corals are allowed and not even live rock or live sand.
The problem is that our environmental department is very much miss informed and when you try to import something they will immediately refuse because according to them someone might throw the hard coral in the sea and it will destroy or alter the natural enviornment of our island. The funny thing is that other European countries do import hard corals as a matter of fact I have to go to Austria buy hard corals from there and then get back to Malta since we are part of the EU they do not question why I have corals in my luggage and I simply go through. As you all can imagine this way it's very expensive. Since I am not a marine specialist all my attempts to convince these people went in vain and was hoping that maybe someone can give me some pointers or maybe point me to some websites where I can get information on the matter and get back to the environmental department with some studies to backup my points of discussion.