Florida Administrative Code › 68 - FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION › 68 - Departmental › Chapter 68-5 - RULES RELATING TO NON-NATIVE SPECIES › Section 68-5.004 - Conditional Non-Native Species

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
Live specimens of the following species, including their
				  taxonomic successors, subspecies, or hybrids or eggs thereof may be possessed
				  only pursuant to permit issued by the Executive Director except as provided in
				  Rule 68-5.005, F.A.C.
(1) Non-native freshwater fish and aquatic
				invertebrate species.
(a) Bighead carp
				(
Aristichthys nobilis
).
(b) Bony-tongue fishes (Family Arapaimidae).
1. Arapaima (
Arapaima
				gigas
).
2. Heterotis
				(
Heterotis niloticus
).
(c) Dorados (Genus
Salminus
,
				all species).
(d) Freshwater
				stingrays (Family Potamotrygonidae, all species).
(e) Grass carp (
Ctenopharyngodon
				idella
), with restrictions as provided in Rule
				68A-23.088, F.A.C.
(f) Silver carp (
Hypophthalmichthys
				molitrix
).
(g) Snail or
				black carp (
Mylopharyngodon piceus
).
(h) Nile perches (Genus
Lates
, all species). For owners of aquaculture facilities that
				are operating under permit or a certificate of registration, but which are not
				cultivating Nile perches as of April 11, 2007, and for owners of aquaculture
				facilities which are issued original permits or certificates of registration
				after April 11, 2007, Nile perches:
1. Shall
				be held only in indoor facilities.
2. Shall not be taken on a fee or for-hire
				basis using hook and line or rod and reel.
(i) Blue tilapia (
Oreochromis
				aureus
), except that
Oreochromis aureus
may be
				possessed, cultured, and transported without permit in all counties of the
				Northeast, North Central, South and Southwest Regions.
(j) Wami tilapia (
Oreochromis
				urolepis
).
(k) Mozambique
				tilapia (
Oreochromis mossambicus
).
(l) Nile tilapia (
Oreochromis
				niloticus
), except that
Oreochromis niloticus
may be
				possessed, cultured, and transported without permit in all counties of the
				Northeast, North Central, South and Southwest Regions.
(m) Walking catfish (
Clarias
				batrachus
).
(n) Blue
				catfish (
Ictalurus furcatus
), except that blue catfish may be
				possessed in the Suwannee River and its tributaries and north and west of the
				Suwannee River.
(o) Australian red
				claw crayfish (
Cherax quadricarinatus
) only in closed tank
				culture systems.
(p) Red swamp
				crayfish (
Procambarus clarkii
) and white river crayfish
				(
Procambarus zonangulas
).
1.
				Pond aquaculture of either species is prohibited.
2. Red swamp crayfish and white river
				crayfish may be possessed west of the Apalachicola River and its tributaries or
				imported for direct sale to food wholesalers and food retailers for resale to
				consumers without permit.
(q) Arowanas (Family Osteoglossidae, all
				species except silver arowana,
Osteoglossum
				bicirrhosum
).
(r) Northern
				largemouth bass (
Micropterus salmoides salmoides
), except that
				intergrade largemouth bass (northern largemouth bass x Florida largemouth bass
Micropterus salmoides floridanus
) may be possessed in the
				Suwannee River and its tributaries and north and west of the Suwannee
				River.