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reduce water testing requirements.
The ability to conduct aquaculture production in current and prior converted wetlands and within the Natural Rivers districts.
Enabling legislation and/or the regulatory framework to allow for the development of a properly regulated open water net pen aquaculture/cage culture of fish in the Great Lakes and other water bodies.
Development of a national aquaculture check-off program.
We oppose:
Any ban on the use of biotechnology in aquaculture
without specific evidence or demonstration of harm by the particular technology.
Individual identification for aquaculture in the event animal identification is mandated.
Restrictions on the culture or stocking of rainbow trout based on “genetic strain.”
Immediate implementation of new Environmental Protection Agency effluent standards if operational viability is jeopardized.
Increasing NPDES permit restrictions or compliance requirements without sound scientific justification.
The use of the Lacey Act to regulate the interstate movement of aquaculture products and urge immediate action to address current prosecutions, as well as a cessation of this practice by regulatory officials.
We support:
[Relocated in policy]Harmonization of the state
definition of aquaculture so that it is in line with the federal definition of aquaculture.
The concept of group or lot identification for aquaculture species.
MDARD registration of out-of-state producers who market aquaculture products in Michigan and enforcement of current regulations related to importation of aquaculture products into Michigan. Funding, research development, and approval of live fish tests so as to eliminate the need to sacrifice fish, as is the current requirement.
If an individual farm has an established herd health plan and a disease status that declares it to be free of regulated aquaculture diseases, that farm should have the ability to ship product interstate.
MDARD cooperating with other states and establishing agreements that allow for shipment of fish from Michigan into other states that follow
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