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Table 10 - Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries: Aquaculture Development, FAO
LEGAL AND
RESPONSIBLE
ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK
DEVELOPMENT OF
AQAUCTURE
AQUACULTURE
PLANNING
General
responsibilities
Designated authority
Legal framework
Understanding and
enforcement of
aquaculture
legislation
General
responsibilities
Aquaculture
Development and
Support Planning
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Description
In order to promote, support, and regulate an efficient and responsible aquaculture sector, States should establish, maintain and further develop an
appropriate administrative and legal framework to ensure that responsible aquaculture practices are introduced and implemented within their
national jurisdiction
States should designate or establish an authority or authorities competent, empowered and capable to effectively promote, support and regulate
aquaculture and culture-based fisheries. Appropriate institutional linkages with other authorities such as those concerned with agriculture, rural
development, water resources, environment, health, education and training and many others, should also be established. These linkages may have to
be expressed in legislative form.
States and their aquaculture authorities should ensure that the aquaculture sector is adequately regulated and protected by legal instruments such as
laws, regulations, orders, agreements, etc., which set forth the responsibilities, rights and privileges of aquaculturists in a manner which is consistent
with the current and potential aquaculture practices and with those applied to comparable activities.
States and their aquaculture authorities should ensure that all applicable legal instruments including laws, regulations, orders, etc. are conceived in
such form as to be readily understood by those undertaking activities within the aquaculture sector, are adequately communicated to them, and
finally that these legal instruments are enforceable and enforced.
States should, through their competent authorities, and in partnership with all interested actors of civil society, promote development of
environmentally sound and sustainable aquaculture well integrated into rural, agricultural and coastal developments, raise awareness of the general
public of the benefits of aquaculture practices for enhanced food supply and income generation, and support efforts aiming at responsible actions of
aquafarmers and all those concerned or associated with aquaculture.
In many countries there is a continued need for aquaculture and planning authorities to produce and regularly update comprehensive plans for
promoting, supporting, regulating, and reporting on the aquaculture sector. The plans should encompass all relevant aspects of support and
management of the industry […]
Development planning will involve, possibly in consultation with all interest groups, the setting of policies and objectives, determining and
implementing of actions required, monitoring the sector’s performance, and adjusting the aquaculture development plan. Good collaboration among
those concerned will help identifying the type of data and information necessary for monitoring and planning.