Live Rock Definition?

[Flinn Curren]

Dear Coral Listers,

1.  In the aquarium trade, how do retailers distinguish between "live rock" 
and "coral" when both corals and calcarious algae are found on the same 
specimen?

2.  In jurisdictions allowing export of live rock but not coral, how are 
they differentiated?

Here in American Samoa, one company has recently started to collect live 
rock and some aquarium fish for export on a weekly basis.

Please send comments directly to me at: flinnc at hotmail.com

Thanks.

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Flinn Curren                                    phone:  (684) 633-4456
Department of Marine & Wildlife Resources	fax:    (684) 633-5944
American Samoan Government
P.O. Box 3730
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
USA

e-mail:	flinnc at hotmail.com	or
        curren.davison at samoatelco.com
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