Entering Canada, Transporting fish, FINAL ANSWERS?

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santoury

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OK guys
I need a final YES OR NO answer. Is a passport needed, these days, to enter Canada and return? I am still getting conflicting answers. (NIAGARA FALLS)


Furthermore, is it allowed to bring LEGAL, and yes, I mean LEGAL! fish from a Canadian store, into the US? For example, if I saw a really nice lungfish, or an awesome Cichlid I couldn't pass up? Or is all livestock prohibited?

Also, if you know of fish stores in the Rochester NY area/Niagara Falls area, let me know for this weekend!
Thanks!
 
Passports for crossing the canadian border is being implemented but isn't in full effect yet. Your best bet is to have one (you never know if the law will change while you're over there).
It is legal to transport legal species from Canada to the US. However, all you'd need is a border official to question it and the game is over. If you get into an argument over it with an officer, at the very least, they can impound the fish for 'quarantine' and it'll be months before you can get it (if at all and after paying the quarantine fees). Above all, be cool and courteous at the border. And, NEVER try to quote the regs to a border officer. They just love providing 'special' treatment to armchair lawyers.
 
Oddball
Thanks a lot for the input! I actually do not yet have a passport... Should I ask at the border? And yes, I'm with you on the courtesy - Nothing but respect for officials.
 
Go to your regular Post Office and fill out the request forms for obtaining a passport. Bring two passport photographs of yourself (Sears, Wal-mart, etc), proof of U.S. citizenship, and a valid form of photo identification such as a driver's license.
 
So if they question you on what sort of fish you have, you can lie right? Its not like I'm going to do this, since I live in FL, but if you wanted to you could probably say a RTG aro is a Silver aro. Do you think it would really be that hard to do. Again, this is a hypothetical question, so do NOT flame me! Thanks!
 
Hey
Not sure how it became another guy's thread.... I'm NOT interested in playing with the law. I just figured I might come across a killer lungfish that I couldn't pass up.
 
hypotheticaly you'll enjoy the strip search,hypotheticaly you'll enjoy watching as they take your car apart(they do not have to put it back together)hypotheticaly you'll enjoy having your property siezed and possible fines
 
Santoury at the very least bring a copy of your birth certficate if you can't prove your an American the guards do not have to let you back into the country-Anne
 
Beblondie
Thank you for the suggestion. I, however, am at school and don't have my birth cert. with me. Didn't think of it last year when I came down here.
 
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