US Lacey Act injurious wildlife — prohibited fish/mollusks/crustaceans (50 CFR 16.13): snakeheads, mitten crabs, zebra mussels, Nile perch

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US Lacey Act injurious wildlife — prohibited fish/mollusks/crustaceans (50 CFR 16.13): snakeheads, mitten crabs, zebra mussels, Nile perch

Verbatim first-hand facts extracted from eCFR 50 CFR Part 16 Subpart B (Lacey Act injurious wildlife), retrieved via Tokyo relay and tag-stripped. All bullets are exact substrings of the cited source and C1-substring verified.

Verbatim regulatory facts (C1 substrings of source_file)

> Live mitten crabs, genus Eriocheir, or their viable eggs.

> Any live fish or viable eggs of snakehead fishes of the genera Channa and Parachanna

> zebra mussels, genus Dreissena.

> Lates niloticus (Nile perch)

Source: pdf-raw/exotic-regulation/us_lacey_injurious_wildlife_50cfr16_subpartb.txt (first-hand eCFR regulation text, retrieved via relay and tag-stripped).

Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)

Live mitten crabs, genus Eriocheir, or their viable eggs.
Any live fish or viable eggs of snakehead fishes of the genera Channa and Parachanna
zebra mussels, genus Dreissena.
Lates niloticus (Nile perch)

Sources

US Lacey Act injurious wildlife — prohibited fish/mollusks/crustaceans (50 CFR 16.13): snakeheads, mitten crabs, zebra mussels, Nile perch

Source document: 50 CFR Part 16 Subpart B — Importation or Shipment of Injurious Wildlife (eCFR, U.S. National Archives, authentic)

eCFR (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)50 CFR 16.11–16.15retrieved 2026-07-28

Verification file: pdf-raw/exotic-regulation/us_lacey_injurious_wildlife_50cfr16_subpartb.txt

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