First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II, 2021-2022 |
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Fisheries Act (closed containment aquaculture)
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FIRST READING, March 4, 2022
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Ms. Barron |
This enactment amends the Fisheries Act to prohibit finfish aquaculture for commercial purposes in Canadian fisheries waters off the Pacific Coast except when it is carried out in closed containment facilities. It also requires the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans to prepare, table in Parliament and implement a plan to support the transition to the use of closed containment facilities and to protect the jobs and financial security of workers in that sector.
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II, 2021-2022 |
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
BILL C-258 |
An Act to amend the Fisheries Act (closed containment aquaculture) |
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.S., c. F-14
closed containment facility means a solid wall structure, either onshore or offshore, for the culture of fish that prevents those fish and their parasites, as well as waste and other pollutants, from escaping into the surrounding marine systems; (parc clos)
End of inserted block(1.01) The Minister may issue or authorize to be issued under this Act a licence for finfish aquaculture in Canadian fisheries waters off the Pacific Coast for commercial purposes only if it is carried out in a closed containment facility.
End of inserted block26 No person shall carry out finfish aquaculture in Canadian fisheries waters off the Pacific Coast except in accordance with a licence issued under subsection 7(1.01).
End of inserted block4 (1) Section 26 of the Fisheries Act, as enacted by section 3 of this Act, does not apply to a person who, on the day on which this Act comes into force, holds a licence for finfish aquaculture that does not require it to be carried out in a closed containment facility.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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