Aquaculture Lease - New South Wales

Description

You will need an aquaculture lease if you intend to carry out aquaculture operations within public water lands in New South Wales.

Aquaculture means cultivating fish or marine vegetation for the purposes of harvesting with a view to sale, or keeping fish or marine vegetation in a confined area for a commercial purpose.

There are four classes of lease are available, depending on the sector and area in which you intend to carry out operations.

Estuarine (oyster) sector:

  • Class 1: where extensive aquaculture is undertaken and most of the lease is less than 6 metres deep or where the lease includes a bed from which oysters are dredged

Marine waters sector:

  • Class 2: where extensive aquaculture is undertaken and most of the lease is more than 6 metres deep and the area does not include a bed that can be used for dredging
  • Class 3: where intensive aquaculture is undertaken (nutritional feeding)
  • Class 4: where fish ranching is undertaken (the artificial stocking of an area with juvenile stock of a species such as abalone that can roam freely and feed naturally).

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

Please consult the Contact Officer for information on forms to be submitted.

Prerequisites

Must Have

Aquaculture Permit

Duration

Up to 15 years

Expiry

Annual rent must be paid before 31 July each year

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Description
Apply Application All Fee information is in the attached fee resource.

Forms

Other resources

Administering agency

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development

Fisheries & Forestry

Fisheries

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.