Florida Administrative Code
5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES
5L - Division of Aquaculture
Chapter 5L-3 - AQUACULTURE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Section 5L-3.006 - Minimal Impact Aquaculture Facilities

Universal Citation: FL Admin Code R 5L-3.006

Current through Reg. 50, No. 187; September 24, 2024

(1) When determined by the Division of Aquaculture's evaluation of facility design and on site inspections, the following individual production units are deemed to have minimal impacts on water resources and are not required to follow the effluent treatment BMPs in Rule 5L-3.004, F.A.C. All other applicable Rule 5L-3.004, F.A.C., BMPs must be followed.

(a) Recirculation systems that do not discharge to waters of the state.

(b) Culture of filter feeders which does not include feed or fertilizer inputs.

(c) Raceway or down-weller systems for native filter feeders that utilize less than 800 square feet of raceways or down-wellers, and do not add supplemental algae as a food source.

(d) Fee fishing operations with a standing crop of less than 1000 pounds of fish per acre.

(e) Individual production units producing less than 10, 000 pounds of product per year that minimize the release of sediments off site by using an on site ditch system with a minimum 100 linear feet of ditch between the production water entry point and the discharge point and one foot of free board at the discharge point control structure.

(f) Aquaculture systems that do not discharge production unit water to surface waters of the state.

(2) Aquaculture facilities which do not qualify as minimal impact aquaculture facilities are required to follow all applicable BMPs in Rule 5L-3.004, F.A.C., in order to be certified.

Rulemaking Authority 570.07(23), 597.004(2)(a) FS. Law Implemented 597.002, 597.003(1)(a), 597.004 FS.

New 10-4-00, Amended 11-30-15.

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