Health of Animals Regulations (C.R.C., c. 296)

194. No person shall import an aquatic animal that is not listed in Schedule III unless it is accompanied by a document that is satisfactory to an inspector and that includes the following information:

• (a) the name and address of the exporter;

• (b) the name and address of the importer;

• (c) the taxonomic name of the aquatic animal, the life stage, and the number being imported, if more than one; and

• (d) the country in which the aquatic animal was born or where the germplasm came from and, in the case of an aquatic animal, whether it was born in captivity or in the wild.

195. (1) No person shall import into Canada, except in accordance with a permit issued under section 160

• (a) the carcass or a part of the carcass of a finfish listed in Schedule III for use as bait, for use in feeding to, or manufacturing feed for aquatic animals, for research or diagnosis or, if the carcass has not been eviscerated, for any purpose that will produce offal or effluent containing anything from the finfish;

• (b) the carcass or a part of the carcass of a mollusc listed in Schedule III, for use as bait, for use in feeding to, or manufacturing feed for aquatic animals, for research or diagnosis, or for any purpose that will produce offal or effluent containing anything from the mollusc;

• (c) the carcass or a part of the carcass of a crustacean listed in Schedule III, for use as bait, for use in feeding to, or manufacturing feed for aquatic animals, for research or diagnosis, or for any purpose that will produce offal or effluent containing anything from the crustacean; or

• (d) offal from a finfish, mollusc or crustacean listed in Schedule III, for use as bait, for use in feeding to, or manufacturing feed for aquatic animals, for research or diagnosis, or for any purpose that will produce effluent containing anything from that offal.

196. Each province, each territory, and the territorial sea and contiguous zone of Canada taken together, is established as an eradication area in which

• (a) any finfish, mollusc or crustacean listed in Schedule III may be inspected, segregated and tested for any disease listed in the schedule to the Reportable Diseases Regulations; and

• (b) disease eradication programs may be instituted for preventing the spread of any disease listed in the schedule to the Reportable Diseases Regulations.

197. Every owner or person having the possession, care or control of an aquatic animal or a thing in an eradication area shall, when requested by a veterinary inspector, an inspector or an accredited veterinarian endorsed by a veterinary inspector, permit tests for any of the diseases listed in the schedule to the Reportable Diseases Regulations to be conducted on the aquatic animal or the thing.