New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (AQUACULTURE) REGULATION 2007 - REG 4A

4A Certain persons do not require aquaculture permits

(1) A person who carries out an exempt activity is excluded from the operation of section 144 of the Act in respect of that exempt activity.

(2) For the purposes of this clause, the following are "exempt activities":

(a) the cultivation of ornamental fish by a person in a pond, tank or other structure, if the total capacity of all structures in which the person cultivates ornamental fish is less than 10,000 litres,

(b) the keeping of fish by a person in a confined area, for the purposes of selling the fish alive, if the person does not cultivate the fish concerned.

(3) In this clause, "ornamental fish" means any fish cultivated for the purposes of exhibition or sale in the aquarium industry but does not include:

(a) any fish cultivated for the purposes of human consumption, or

(b) any fish cultivated for the purposes of stocking a farm dam (within the meaning of section 198A of the Act) or stocking public water land.