Fisheries Management (Aquaculture) Regulation 1995.

These Regulations supplement Part 6 of the Fisheries Management Act which relates to aquaculture management. The Regulations provide, inter alia, for: (a) classification of aquaculture permits; (b) procedures of applications and issue of permits; (c) the payment of contributions by class A and class B permit holders; (d) classification of aquaculture leases; (e) procedures of application, and granting and renewing, of aquaculture leases; (f) the rent payable under aquaculture leases; various other matters with respect to agriculture leases; (g) gathering or collection of marine vegetation for commercial purposes; (h) consigning and conveying containers containing shellfish. Leases are divided into 4 categories: Leases for an area in which extensive cultivation of fish or marine vegetation in the majority of the area is undertaken in water of less than 6 meters depth or where the leased area comprises a bed where oysters are dredged (class 1); leases for an area in which the same extensive cultivation as under class 1 is undertaken but in water deeper than 6 meters (class 2); intensive cultivation of fish or marine vegetation (class 3); leases for fish ranching (class 4). (61 regulations completed by two Schedules)