§2808 Regulatory constraints on aquaculture

Summary

Within twelve months after September 26, 1980, the Secretaries must study how Federal and State rules limit the growth of aquaculture in the United States. The study must review existing information and describe the problem; list current and pending federal rules; list current state rules in five randomly chosen states from different regions; do case studies of ten commercial aquaculture operations covering a range of marine and freshwater species; and make a flow-chart timeline showing which rules most hurt starting commercial aquaculture. Within six months after the study is done, the Secretaries must make a plan with specific federal steps to remove unnecessary regulatory barriers to beginning and running commercial aquaculture businesses, and they must send that plan to Congress.