During 2015–2019, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

had 834 CASES of live wildlife that was refused clearance and seized or abandoned, which included 48,793 INDIVIDUAL LIVE SPECIMENS that required care and placement. This number averages to 14 NEW CASES PER MONTH and 27 LIVE SPECIMENS PER DAY.

* excludes federally listed live injurious species which typically would have been euthanized or returned to origin

CATEGORY

LIVE AQUATIC LIVE TERRESTRIAL LIVE PLANTS * ANIMALS**

493 302 52 CASES CASES CASES

33,482 13,601 1,710 INDIVIDUALS INDIVIDUALS INDIVIDUALS

* includes live , live fish, live crustaceans, live mollusks, live aquatic amphibians, live aquatic reptiles ** includes live arachnids, live butterflies, live birds, live mammals, live arthropods, live terrestrial amphibians, live terrestrial reptiles CASES

Note: Some cases involved multiple wildlife categories, and/or a combination of terrestrial and aquatic species. Therefore, the accumulative number of cases depicted above and below (848) will exceed the total number of cases above (834). Percentages below are representative of the percentage value of total number of cases (834).

LIVE REPTILE SPECIES were the most frequently confiscated taxa, by number of cases: 244 cases (~29% of total cases)

The TOP THREE taxa by number of cases were:

REPTILES CORAL FISH 244 210 137 (~29% of total cases) (~25% of total cases) (~17% of total cases)

The remaining breakdown of taxa by the number of cases were:

BIRDS CRUSTACEANS ARACHNIDS CACTUS 69 42 35 30 (~8% of total cases) (~5% of total cases) (~4% of total cases) (~3.5% of total cases)

OTHER AMPHIBIANS ARTHROPODS INVERTEBRATES OTHER PLANTS 30 29 24 22 (~3.5% of total cases) (~3.5% of total cases) (less than 3% of total cases) (less than 3% of total cases)

MOLLUSKS MAMMALS BUTTERFLIES 18 16 2 (~2% of total cases) (less than 2% of total cases) (less than 1% of total cases) INDIVIDUAL SPECIMENS

REPTILES comprised the MAJORITY OF LIVE INDIVIDUAL SPECIMENS: 18,249 live individuals (~37% of total live individuals)

The TOP THREE taxa by number of live individuals were:

REPTILES CRUSTACEANS CORAL 18,249 7,922 6,125 (~37% of total live individuals) (~16% of total live individuals) (~12.5% of total live individuals)

The remaining breakdown of taxa by the number of live individuals were:

OTHER FISH MOLLUSKS INVERTEBRATES ARACHNIDS 5,528 2,692 1,885 1,517 (~11% of total (~5.5% of total (~4% of total (~3% of total live individuals) live individuals) live individuals) live individuals)

CACTUS ARTHROPODS AMPHIBIANS MAMMALS 1,229 1,082 831 700 (~2.5% of total (~2% of total (less than 2% of (less than 2% of live individuals) live individuals) total live individuals) total live individuals)

OTHER PLANTS BIRDS BUTTERFLIES 481 422 130 (less than 1% of (less than 1% of (less than 1% of total live individuals) total live individuals) total live individuals) SPECIES

The TOP FIVE GENERA OR SPECIES by number of LIVE INDIVIDUALS were:

5,700 5,115 3,760 live individuals of live individuals of live individuals of Litopenaeus Vannamei Trachemys Malaclemys terrapin “Whiteleg shrimp” “Slider Turtles” “Diamondback Terrapins” (5,079 of Trachemys scripta)

1,893 1,520 live live individuals of “Stony ” Terrapene “Box Turtles” (no species information available) (1,273 of Terrapene carolina)

The TOP FIVE SPECIES by number of CASES were:

18 cases of ancora “Anchor Coral” 60 15 cases of Euphyllia glarescens “Trumpet Coral” cases of 13 cases of Euphyllia paradivisa “Trumpet Coral” 12 cases of Euphyllia paraancora “Branching Anchor Coral” Euphyllia corals 4 cases of Euphyllia cristata “White Grape Coral”

48 29 21 cases of cases of cases of Terrapene “Box Turtles” Scleractinia “Stony Coral” Amazona “Parrots” The majority of cases (37) (no species information (various species) were Terrapene carolina available)

21 21 19 cases of cases of cases of Echinophyllia corals corals Cactaceae “Cactus” (2 cases of Echinophyllia (various species or no species (no species information aspera; 19 cases no species information available) available) information available) GEOGRAPHY OF SEIZURES (BY PORT) The two data sets below are separated by region type, as some cases were reported by port and some by region only; and some by both port and region.

The three ports with the highest number The three ports with the highest number of cases are: of live individuals are: LOS ANGELES (177 CASES) MIAMI (18,671) MIAMI (139 CASES) EL PASO (6,000) SAN FRANCISCO (83 CASES) LOS ANGELES (4,616)

The full breakdown of number of cases and live individuals is:

CASES LIVE INDIVIDUALS CASES LIVE INDIVIDUALS Hagåtña, Guam 1 22 Lukeville 1 5 Anchorage 7 764 Louisville 5 86 Atlanta 15 738 Laredo 13 23 Buffalo 4 5 Memphis 5 154 Boston 1 3 Miami 139 18,671 Brownsville 6 164 Minneapolis/St. Paul 9 43 Chicago 28 1,336 Nogales 31 56 Champlain 1 4 Newark 15 631 Calexico 2 2 New York 41 813 Detroit 1 2 Orlando 3 174 Dallas/Fort Worth 28 3,096 Philadelphia 3 17 Douglas 5 5 Port Huron 2 5 Denver 1 13 Phoenix 1 62 Dunseith 1 2 Seattle 11 775 Dulles International Airport 3 176 San Francisco 83 1,073 El Paso 32 6,000 San Juan 3 24 Erlanger 2 18 San Luis 3 3 Fort Lauderdale 1 26 San Diego/San Ysidro 8 61 Honolulu 3 163 Tampa 1 32 Houston 10 65 West Palm Beach 1 1 Los Angeles 177 4,616 LOCATION OF SEIZURES (BY REGION)

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LEGACY REGION 1 (PACIFIC) LEGACY REGION 5 (NORTHEAST) 4 CASES 72 CASES 112 LIVE INDIVIDUALS 6,513 LIVE INDIVIDUALS

LEGACY REGION 2 (SOUTHWEST) LEGACY REGION 6 (MOUNTAIN PRAIRIE) 38 CASES 3 CASES 3,362 LIVE INDIVIDUALS 9 LIVE INDIVIDUALS

LEGACY REGION 3 (GREAT LAKES) LEGACY REGION 7 (ALASKA) 25 CASES 3 CASES 817 LIVE INDIVIDUALS 943 LIVE INDIVIDUALS

LEGACY REGION 4 (SOUTHEAST) LEGACY REGION 8 (PACIFIC SOUTHWEST) 71 CASES 107 CASES 14,144 LIVE INDIVIDUALS 3,635 LIVE INDIVIDUALS