“RE-STARTING AQUACULTURE” – CONSULTATION ON AQUACULTURE TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP REPORT

The Minister of Fisheries, Minister for the Environment and Minister for Economic Development have released the Aquaculture Technical Advisory Group (TAG) report and seek your views on the report’s proposals and any other proposals you have to enable aquaculture development.

Ministers established an independent technical advisory group in July 2009 to provide Government with recommendations to enable the development of sustainable aquaculture in New Zealand. The Government is committed to developing an effective and enabling regulatory regime for aquaculture, while recognising the environmental and public character of our marine areas, and the rights of iwi, fishers and other users of our coastal marine areas.

For further information on Government’s involvement in aquaculture go to www.aquaculture.govt.nz

 Download the Aquaculture TAG Report (PDF 330kb)

 Download Aquaculture Questions and Answers (Doc 58kb)

Making a submission

Submissions are invited on the proposals set out in the TAG report “Re-starting Aquaculture” and any other proposals you have to enable aquaculture development.

In respect to the TAG report proposals, submitters are asked to focus their submissions on the recommendations and to please follow the structure of the report.

Please reference the section numbers from the TAG report, where relevant. 

Submissions are due by 5.00pm Wednesday, 16 December 2009.

Comments should be provided in writing, preferably by email, to aquaculturesubmissions@fish.govt.nz

Alternatively, submissions can be posted to:

Aquaculture Submissions
Ministry of Fisheries
PO Box 1020
WELLINGTON

An optional submission form is provided below. To use, please download and complete the word document and then email to the email address above.

 Download Consultation Submission Form (Doc 61kb)

Release of Information

All submissions are subject to the Official Information Act 1982 and can be released, if requested, under the Act. If you have specific reasons for wanting to have your submission withheld, please set out your reasons in the submission. The Ministry will consider those reasons when making any assessment for the release of submissions if requested under the Official Information Act 1982.