Regulations for Enforcement of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Domestic Distribution and Importation of Specified Aquatic Animals and Plants（Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries No. 39 of 2022）.

These Regulations are estblished in accordance with the Act on Ensuring the Proper Domestic Distribution and Importation of Specified Aquatic Animals and Plants (Act No. 79 of 2020) and the Cabinet Order on Duties to be Undertaken by Prefectures Pursuant to the Provisions of the Act on Ensuring the Proper Domestic Distribution and Importation of Specified Aquatic Animals and Plants (Cabinet Order No. 18 of 2022).
The Act on Ensuring the Proper Domestic Distribution and Importation of Specified Aquatic Animals and Plants has two separate components - imported regulations and domestic distribution. Each component contains a set of requirements that apply to the species that are caught and distributed domestically (referred to as the Class I species) and imported from overseas (referred to as the Class II species).
Class I species are as follows: (i) eel fry (meaning eels of 13 centimeters or less in total length); (ii) abalone; and (iii) sea cucumber (art.2). Class II species are as follows: (i) mackerel; (ii) Pacific saury; (iii) sardine; and (iv) squid and cuttlefish (art.3). The Regulations further make provisions for: information to be communicated, information to be recorded in transactions, means or method of preparation of transaction records, application for issuance of legal harvest certificate, etc.