Freshwater shrimps legal or not?

I've browsed around on the net and got to a few sites that mention selling shrimps is illegal?

Does anybody know more about this?
Here is one link.
Question: Tropical Fresh Water Shrimp legal or not? [Archive] - Tropical Aquariums South Africa

 

Hi just joined the group... Not sure if illegal but the one fish shop here in PE had some for sale.

 

I don't think anybody knows, whenever this topic arises, you'll hear about black lists, grey lists, white lists. If you were to contact the DEA and speak to a couple of people, I would be surprised if you could get a coherent answer from them.

 

I got hold of the latest "Staatskoerant" Gazette from the goverment but didn't found anything in there.

Here is the link http://www.gpwonline.co.za/Gazettes/Gazettes/37886_1-8_EnvAffairs.pdf

maybe I missed it but I think it's legal.

 

Nothing found on this site around shrimps

Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries > Search Results Page

 

This is not really an informed opinion, but I understand that caridina nilotica (ghost shrimp) is fine because it is naturally widely distributed in Africa and found in all sorts of natural watercourses in South Africa. I understand that one of the reasons that more exotic shrimp (like amano, etc) are currently blacklisted is because no one's done a study to determine whether they are invasive here or not, even if popular opinion is that they wouldn't be.

 

@HennieRoux put a petition together for this on TASA..

 

We are busy with the DEA and we did a petition on this. They are looking in to this and we might get lucky soon. If u have any shrimp in your tank then it is ok, it also ok to trade. Gonna take some time, but soon. Watch this space and the petition thread.