UNSPSC 10101720: Live acarahuazu fish

A tropical freshwater fish native to Peru, Colombia, Brazil and French Guyana. It is also known as oscar, tigre oscar, pavon copaneca. Scientific name is astronotus ocellatus. Family is cichlidae. Genus is astronotus.

UNSPSC 10101720 Live acarahuazu fish, a Commodity code, does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes tropical acarahuazu species, but the three most recent opportunities tagged under this code involve sunfish (bluegill/green hybrids) and trout nursery operations — neither acarahuazu nor live-fish procurement in the scope this code purports to name. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources IFB for sunfish (Solicitation 27422DNRRESCOB54517, due November 4, 2026) solicits 132,257 live hybrid sunfish annually across six Illinois regions for urban fishing programs, with vendor requirements including state aquaculture licensing, $1 million liability coverage, and 2% maximum mortality guarantees. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania's A&I solicitation (2629, due June 4, 2026) seeks a 10-year sub-lease operator for a trout nursery facility to rear fingerling trout for fishing derbies and public access. Both opportunities involve fish stocking and nursery operations rather than the tropical species the code name denotes.

The issuing bodies are state natural-resources departments and county conservation authorities in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. The code shows minimal confirmed activity under its stated taxonomy — the two substantive recent opportunities (Illinois DNR and Montgomery County) appear misfiled by the soliciting agencies. Geographic spread is limited to Illinois and Pennsylvania based on recent records. Practitioners pursuing state and local fish-stocking or nursery-operator contracts should monitor natural-resources and parks-department solicitations directly rather than relying on this code's categorization, as the mismatch between code definition and actual procurement suggests systematic miscoding in state and local databases.