Permit details for NT customers
Due to NT Fisheries restrictions, all customers ordering any Aquatic life need to have approval from fisheries before we are able to send your order.
Please refer details below to apply for a free permit.
You can place the order before or after your permit has been approved. Any orders submitted from NT are blocked from shipping until we receive your permit. However, NT Fisheries have advised that permits are issued for a period not more than 2 weeks, which only gives us a couple of opportunities to ship, so we strongly suggest, you select your fish and pay for them first, in order to reserve your stock, otherwise if you get your mpermit first, when you then come to purchase the stock, we can not guarantee what you were after is still available.
Please find a couple of convenient links as part of researching which fish and plants you can import into NT: -
- Aquatic plants that do not require a permit
Once you have your permit, place your order and then contact us via email with your order number and attach a copy of the permit - info@livefish.com.au. We will clear the order for shipping with the dispatch team and the order will be shipped on the next available shipping day.
Permit to import or move fish - section 13
To import or move fish, aquatic life or aquatic plants into or within the NT, you must have a section 13 permit.
Permitted fish, aquatic life and aquatic plants are those that are:
- native to the NT or are listed in the allowable live imports list into Australia
- assessed non-invasive species from other states under schedule 7 of the NT Fisheries Regulations 1993.
For a list of permitted aquatic species, go to the Australian Government's Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water website.
Before you can import aquatic plants, they all must also be assessed by the NT Fisheries Division.
How to apply
You can apply for a permit online through the NT Fisheries Emperor Portal.
If it's your first time using the portal, you must first create an account (highlghted in yellow below).
The drop-down list only includes permitted fish, aquatic life and aquatic plants.
Plants that are not true aquatics will not appear on the list, but all plants need to be assessed as aquatic or not and not a declared weed.
Please note the Licensing office goes through periods of being very busy. The normal timeframe is around 5 working days for applications to be processed, but at times this may be longer.
To check on any species that cannot be added, email fisherieslicensing@nt.gov.au.
For help, contact NT Fisheries Licensing by calling 08 8999 2144.