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