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ByCentre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciencelunar_tide_cbd993

Find out how to export live fish, molluscs and crustaceans for farming, ornamental, or any other purpose except direct human consumption

Adapted edition

Animal welfare
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
8
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-17
Category
Safety & operations
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

Find out how to export live fish, molluscs and crustaceans for farming, ornamental, or any other purpose except direct human consumption Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.

Contents
  • Exporter authorisation
  • Exporting from England and Wales to an EU Country
  • Additional guidance on exporting live bivalve molluscs to an EU Member State
  • If you did not supply the required certification at the time of the export
  • Movements from England and Wales to Northern Ireland (NI)
  • If you did not supply the required certification at the time of the export
  • Movements from England and Wales to Crown Dependencies
  • Exporting from England and Wales to a non-EU country
  • Exporting CITES species
  • Consignments of live aquatic animals from England and Wales rejected by the EU or Northern Ireland
  • Errors in documentation
  • If your goods were rejected for other reasons, such as customs declaration issues
  • Contacts
  • Fish Health Inspectorate in England and Wales
Source and licence
Exporting or moving live fish and shellfish

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionCentre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, ‘Exporting or moving live fish and shellfish’ (updated 5 August 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.

Version history
  • v1.017/09/2026
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