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Saturday, Jan 14, 2006
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Aquaculture Centre sets up Coastal Aquaculture Authority Our Bureau
Chennai , Jan. 13 THE Centre has constituted the Coastal Aquaculture Authority to regulate all forms of aquaculture activities, including shrimp farms. According to officials, the authority has been constituted under the Coastal Aquaculture Authority Act 2005, and will have its headquarters in Chennai. The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha in May last year. The rules and guidelines are in place. The constitution of the Chairman and members in the authority was notified on December 22, 2005. According to officials, a retired judge of the Madras High Court, Mr A.K. Rajan, will head the authority. The Member Secretary is Dr Y.S. Yadava, who was the Member Secretary, Aquaculture Authority, which was earlier constituted through an order of the Supreme Court. The authority will be responsible for regulating the sustainable development of coastal aquaculture farms and also other aquaculture activities in coastal areas. It will have nine members drawn from the Ministries of Agriculture, Environment and Forests, Commerce and the Department of Ocean Development, and the Secretary Fisheries, Tamil Nadu, Director Fisheries, Government of West Bengal and two representatives from the farming communities in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. The earlier Aquaculture Authority, which was constituted in 1997 following a Supreme Court order in December 1996, gets subsumed in the new Coastal Aquaculture Authority, according to officials.
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