Buying coral and fish from USA

[GoFish]

I actually inquired with a US coral seller just yesterday and this is reply I received...

Thanks for your interest. There is a lot required to take coral from the USA to Canada. You would need cites permits and they can take weeks to months to get and they have to be purchased per species. You would need and import/export licenses which can take months. You have to schedule with fish and wildlife at certain time to cross the border and the list goes on. It would not be worth it unless you were purchasing several thousand dollars in coral at one time.

I'm not sure about the fish and wildlife part as we are Canadian, but sounds like a big pain to me. Surely this has been looked into many times before for cost reasons and added selection for sure