Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment ) Bill, 2023

Bill is About

  • Amendment Act enables lakhs of small marginal aquaculture farmers to avoid possible need for obtaining CRZ clearances from multiple agencies
  • provides for broad basing “coastal aquaculture” to comprehensively cover all activities of coastal aquaculture
  • ensure that they operate in an environmentally compliant manner – such as cage culture, seaweed culture, etc can be taken up in coastal areas and mostly within CRZ
  • promote ease of doing business in coastal aquaculture by fine tuning some of operational procedures of Coastal Aquaculture Authority
  • removed imprisonment and impose only a penalty in line with principle of decriminalizing civil transgressions

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