California Aquaculture Development Act

The Aquaculture Development Act establishes a state framework for promoting and regulating aquaculture — the cultivation and production of aquatic species — by declaring the policy goals behind the program and defining the terms that govern it. It designates a lead agency and grants that agency the powers and duties to administer the act, chiefly through registration and licensing of aquaculture facilities, along with requirements addressing fish disease management and the fish passage and residual stream flow implications of operations that affect waterways. It also reaches the propagation and production of American alligators, and specifies what constitutes a violation of its requirements.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.