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Florida Administrative Code (Last Updated: June 27, 2024) |
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5. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services |
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5L. Division of Aquaculture |
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5L-3. Aquaculture Best Management Practices |
1(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 435L-3.004, 44F.A.C. All other applicable Rule 495L-3.004, 50F.A.C., BMPs must be followed.
55(a) Recirculation systems that do not discharge to waters of the state.
67(b) 68Culture of filter feeders 72which does not include feed or fertilizer inputs.
80(c) Raceway or down-weller systems for native 87filter feeders 89that utilize less than 800 square feet of raceways or down-wellers, and do not add supplemental algae as a food source.
110(d) Fee fishing operations with a standing crop of less than 1000 pounds of fish per acre.
127(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.
186(f) Aquaculture systems that do not discharge production unit water to surface waters of the state.
202(2) Aquaculture facilities which do not qualify as minimal impact aquaculture facilities are required to follow all applicable BMPs in Rule 2235L-3.004, 224F.A.C., in order to be certified.
230Rulemaking Authority 232570.07(23), 233597.004(2)(a) FS. 235Law Implemented 237597.002, 238597.003(1)(a), 239597.004 FS. 241History–New 10-4-00, Amended 11-30-15.
