Pacific Aquaculture Regulations
3 (1) The Minister may issue an aquaculture licence authorizing a person to engage in aquaculture and prescribed activities on payment of the flat fee and the annual fee for the licence for the first year of the period during which it is valid.
(2) The flat fee is payable for each aquaculture licence application and is determined in accordance with the formula
A × B
where
- A
- is
(a) in the case of an aquaculture licence for fish cultivated for non-commercial purposes, $0, and
(b) in the case of all other aquaculture licences, $100; and
- B
- is the annual adjustment factor determined in accordance with the formula
[(C – 2015) × .02] + 1
where
- C
- is the year of the payment of the fee.
(3) The annual fee is payable in respect of each year of the period during which the licence is valid and is determined in accordance with the formula
D × E × B
where
- D
- is
(a) in the case of an aquaculture licence for fish cultivated for commercial purposes in a marine environment other than those fish referred to in paragraph (b), the number of tonnes of fish authorized to be cultivated under the terms of the licence,
(b) in the case of an aquaculture licence for shellfish cultivated for commercial purposes in a marine environment, the number of hectares on which the shellfish are authorized to be cultivated under the terms of the licence, and
(c) in the case of an aquaculture licence for fish cultivated for commercial purposes in a freshwater facility or in a land-based facility, zero, and
(d) in the case of an aquaculture licence for fish cultivated for non-commercial purposes, zero;
- E
- is
(a) in the case of the licence referred to in paragraph (a) of the description of D, $2.50,
(b) in the case of the licence referred to in paragraph (b) of the description of D, $5.00,
(c) in the case of the licence referred to in paragraph (c) of the description of D, $0, and
(d) in the case of the licence referred to in paragraph (d) of the description of D, $0; and
- B
- is the annual adjustment factor determined for B in subsection (2).
(4) An aquaculture licence must not be issued to an applicant who has not paid in full the flat and annual fees for aquaculture licences that were previously issued to that applicant.
- SOR/2015-96, s. 2
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