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1. Humphead wrasse was the first reef food fish ever-listed in CITES and success in managing it under CITES could be a role model for sustainable trade and conservation of other similar listed or to-be-listed fish species.

2. Through Saving Face, you can also report suspicious illegal trade of humphead wrasse to the government (Agriculture Fisheries and Conservation Department of Hong Kong) to assist their further investigations.

3. One major and ongoing, threat to the species, and to the success of the important CITES listing, is illegal trade, including into and through Hong Kong.

4. The fish is listed on the IUCN Red List as “Endangered” and was included in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix II in 2004.

5. Humphead wrasse has distinctive facial markings, including dark lines posterior to the eyes that are different for each individual of the species as a “fingerprint”.

6. Humphead wrasse is a spectacular, large, reef fish found across coral reef ecosystems of the Indo‐Pacific region.

7. You can help by recording and monitoring humphead wrasse trade in local markets, shops, restaurants and hotels.

8. However, since tagging of individual animals is currently not used, nor any other method to distinguish legally imported fish individuals, Effective tracking and management of trade in an individual is currently impossible.

9. As part of the community, you can help to make the humphead wrasse CITES listing a success.

10. HK is the major importer for the globally threatened humphead wrasse, which is mainly caught in and exported from South East Asian countries, especially Indonesia.

11. Our city is the major global trade hub for this fish which is imported for consumers in the city, tourists and for re-export, mainly to Mainland China.

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