Sec. 22-11f. Licensing of aquaculture operation. Regulations. Control of importation and cultivation of nonnative plants or animals.
Sec. 22-11f. Licensing of aquaculture operation. Regulations. Control of importation and cultivation of nonnative plants or animals. The Department of Agriculture, after consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, shall adopt
regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, concerning the licensing
of aquaculture facilities and operations other than any such facilities or operations of
the Department of Environmental Protection. Such regulations shall establish a program
to control the importation, cultivation or raising of aquatic plants or animals which
are not native to this state. Such regulations shall ensure that any such importation or
cultivation shall not adversely contaminate or impact native aquatic plants or animals
or their natural habitats and shall further provide that aquaculture operations shall not
adversely contaminate or impact wild stocks of aquatic plants and animals or their natural
habitats and shall include measures to identify products of aquaculture operations.
Aquatic plants and animals held at inland aquaculture facilities shall be exempt from
laws and regulations pertaining to wild stocks, including, but not limited to, chapter 495.
(P.A. 94-227, S. 5; P.A. 97-32, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(f); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 97-32 added provisions re control of importation and cultivation of nonnative plants or animals; June 30
Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Department of Agriculture with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective
July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments
of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.