You will need a lease and licence to operate an aquaculture farm in South Australian waters. A lease will grant you the exclusive use of an area of water for marine aquaculture. A licence will allow you to undertake a specified marine aquaculture activity at the leased site.
There are four types of marine aquaculture leases:
- pilot lease
- production lease
- research lease
- emergency lease.
Aquaculture leases within a current aquaculture zone must be endorsed by the Aquaculture Tenure Allocation Board before being assessed by the agency.
There are eight types of marine aquaculture licence:
- Intertidal mollusc licence
- subtidal mollusc licence
- abalone licence
- finfish licence
- tuna licence
- algae licence
- tourism licence
- miscellaneous licence.
You will need separate authorisations to move stock in or out of South Australia and to use hormones or veterinary chemicals on the aquaculture site.
