§ 1154a - Testing of cultured fish and fee fishing businesses - Vermont Statutes

§ 1154a. Testing of cultured fish and fee fishing businesses

(a) Health testing of cultured fish shall be provided to commercial fish farms and fee fishing businesses through an aquaculture inspection program conducted jointly by the agency of agriculture, food and markets and the department of fish and wildlife, in accordance with any memorandum of understanding between the agency and department prepared for this purpose as required by Sec. 88 of No. 50 of the Acts of 1991. Such testing shall be at no charge to the commercial fish farm or fee fishing business. The testing shall be funded jointly from the operating budgets of the agency of agriculture, food and markets and the department of fish and wildlife.

(b) A commercial fish farm must before commencing operation obtain a breeder's license from the commissioner of fish and wildlife as required by section 5207 of Title 10. (Added 1993, No. 202 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; amended 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003; 2005, No. 42, § 4.)