Vendors can access the Vendor menu items above for additional information and to reserve booth space. We realize the greater the number of coral farmers who choose to sell their corals at our Coral Farmers Market events, the greater will be the number of aquarists who choose to attend our events. That is why we have made the booth price very inexpensive when compared to full conference booth space. Our booth prices are comparable to those charged by other large scale coral exchange events that have been run in various locations throughout the United States the past few years. We are hoping that the best exotic coral farmers within the bay area attend our Coral Farmers Markets event. We have scheduled our third Bay Area Coral Farmers Market (BA-CFM) event to occur right at the end of spring just before summer begins.

This event has been sanctioned by the Coral Farmers Market company. These sanctioned events are intended to legitimize, expand and develop the exchange of captive grown corals into a main stream form of commerce for the exotic coral market. The Coral Farmers Market company firmly believes that the future of the captive coral market can only be guaranteed with the promotion of captive coral farming. There have been many increasing pressures that have signifcantly affected the world's natural coral reefs, not to mention the increasing difficulties that exporting nations are encountering when they attempt to import something into the post 9/11 United States. All of these factors point to a future where the importing of live wild coral colonies into the United States will be severly limited. For these reasons, the Coral Farmers Market company sanctions and supports events that promote the exchange of farmed coral.

There is a message forum setup for the Bay Area Coral Farmers Market event on the Coral Farmers Market web site. Vendors and potential vendors can post questions and comments there. Select the Forums menu item above to access the Coral Farmers Market message forum. You can also access the general message forum with this link http://www.coralfarmersmarket.com/forums. Within the coral farmers market forums, posts concerning this event should go into the Bay Area Coral Farmers Market (BA-CFM) boards. Vendors will all be given individual vendors boards within the forum. The board can be used to make announcements concerning the vendors booth and sales items. Some vendors may use their board for presales or for customers to make sales reservations. Vendors can also expect that attendees or potential attendees may post questions or inquiries on their board.

Farmers selling corals to the public during the 2009 Bay Area Coral Farmers Market will need California seller permits. If you are a California retail business, you will already have the permit. If you are an aquarist farmer from the State of California or an out of state business, you will need a temporary seller permit from the State of California. State sales tax of 8.75 % (Alameda County) should be collected for the state. For the seller permit application you will need the following information to complete the Temporary Permit Event Information Section.
- Period of Sales is from 05/3/2009 through 05/3/2009
- An estimate of your total event sales
- The space rental cost (how much we charged you for your booth)
- Admission to the event is being charged
- The organizer of the event Bay Area Coral Farmers Market

10022 6th Street Suite M
Rancho Cucamonga, CA. 91730
- Telephone is 909-989-9708 - The address for this event is Hilton Newark/Fremont 39900 Balentine Dr.
Newark California 94560

The sellers permit can be filed in person at a California State Board of Equalization Office or the form can be printed from the web and filed by mail. They typically want the temporary seller permit filed 1 to 2 months prior to the actual event. Click on this sentence for a link to access the California State Board of Equalization Web Site.

The City of Newark California requires that anyone selling retail to the public within city limits must have an Newark California City Business License. The BA-CFM has purchased a Temporary Vendors business license. This license is actually 90 days long. All vendor sales that occur within the Bay Area Coral Farmers Market will be utilizing that license. This is because the city is not setup to specifically handle 1 day multiple vendor events. The city has informed us verbally that there will be no additional charges and the BA-CFM considers the cost of the temporary vendors business license fee part of the vendors booth rental.

Coral Farmers Market events are promoting coral farming and we prefer coral farming vendors who setup displays to sell captive raised coral. Such a preference may have seemed ridiculous just 10 years ago, but captive coral farming has achieved remarkable success in the past few years. Presently, just about everyone maintaining corals in captivity has achieved at least some form of coral farming success. For the purposes of this Coral Farmers Market sanctioned event, coral farming refers to the farming of corals anywhere it occurs on the planet. Cultured corals imported on artificial disks or constructs, are considered farmed coral. Whole wild caught colonies are not permitted to be sold within any Coral Farmers Market event. Any infraction will be noted and the violation will be registered in private to the offender. They will be allowed to disprove the charges. If satisfactory innocence is established, the matter will be completely dropped. Guilty infractions will be assessed a 2 year Coral Farmers Market event ban probationary period. No public notification will be given. One of the gray areas of this particular restriction concerns selling fragments of imported colonies. The selling of sections of imported wild whole coral colonies may be permitted in certain circumstances. It would be best to ask the Coral Farmers Market staff to clarify ahead of time if your specific situation may constitute a possible infraction.