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Fisheries Act 1996

Aquaculture - Fish farmers

186U: Effect of registration

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"What happens when you register as a fish farmer"

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When you are a registered fish farmer, you and your employees or agents can do certain things. You can take farmed fish from the site specified in your registration. You can also possess, sell, or dispose of farmed fish, as long as you follow the terms and conditions of your registration.

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Part 9AAquaculture
Fish farmers

186UEffect of registration

  1. While a fish farmer's registration is current, the fish farmer and any employee or agent of the fish farmer may do any of the following things to the extent authorised by, and in accordance with terms and conditions of, the registration:

  2. take farmed fish from a site specified in the registration; and
    1. possess, sell, or otherwise dispose of farmed fish.

      Notes
      • Section 186U: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Fisheries Amendment Act (No 3) 2004 (2004 No 104).