Aquaculture - policies, guidelines, protocols and other publications

General information

For further information please phone the DPI&F Business Information Centre on 13 25 23.

Policies

• Management arrangements for potentially high-risk activities in the context of ESD - FAMOP001: For the management of:
  (1) flood prone land,
  (2) exotic freshwater fish species,
  (3) barramundi in inland catchment
  (4) use of aquaculture product for bait.
• Relaying of oysters within Queensland waters - FAMOP005: requirements for relaying within Queensland waters.
• Transhipment of oysters into Queensland waters - FAMOP006: The requirements for transhipment of osyters from interstate into Queensland waters.
• Management arrangements for translocation of live aquatic organisms (transport between bioregions) for aquaculture - FAMOP015: requirements for translocation of live aquatic organisms between bioregions for aquaculture.
• Policy for maximising rock oyster production: management of non-productive oyster areas: minimum production levels for oyster aquaculture.

Health Translocation Protocols

• Health protocol for the importation of selected live penaid species from outside Queensland's East Coast waters - FAMPR001: for the translocation of live broodstock prawns from outside Queensland's traditional East Coast collection grounds (ie. Gulf of Carpentaria, Torres Strait, Northern Territory and Western Australia).
• Health protocol for the importation and movement of live barramundi - FAMPR002: for the translocation of live barramundi from outside Queensland.
• Health protocol for the movement of live bivalve molluscs - FAMPR003: for the translocation of live bivalve molluscs.

Guidelines

• Guidelines for constructing and maintaining aquaculture containment structures: guidelines for best practice in-ground pond construction for aquaculture.
• Site identification for aquaculture - assessment of chemical contamination in site selection: to miminise risk of chemical contamination when selecting sites for aquaculture.
• Health management technical guidelines for aquaculture: technical guideline for health management for aquaculture, including aquaculture undertaken under the self-assessable code. (  PDF 64 kB)

Application forms

If you are planning to translocate aquaculture product from interstate you will need to fill out this form.

• Application to allow the translocation of live aquatic animals into and within Queensland (FDU 1398) (  PDF 103 kB)

Aquaculture Self-Assessable code

If you are planning to conduct small scale aquaculture in recirculating tanks or ponds, this code may be relevant.

• Code for low impact aquaculture (AquaCoP01) (  PDF 310 kB)

Last updated 20 February 2008