(a)  Any person who conducts aquaculture activities in excess of those authorized by an aquaculture permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. In addition to that fine and/or imprisonment, all works, improvements, fish, and animal and plant life involved in the project may be forfeited to the state.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 20-10-16

  • Aquaculture: refers to the cultivation, rearing, or propagation of aquatic plants or animals under either natural or artificial conditions;

    (2)  "CRMC" means the coastal resources management council;

    (3)  "Director" or "department" means the director of or the department of environmental management;

    (4)  "MFC" means the marine fisheries council;

    (5)  "Water column" means the vertical extent of water, including the surface thereof, above a designated area of submerged bottom land. See Rhode Island General Laws 20-10-2

  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6

(b)  Any person damaging, disturbing, or interfering with any area subject to an aquaculture permit or any person damaging, disturbing, interfering, or taking by any means whatsoever, or possessing the cultivated species in an area subject to an aquaculture permit, without the permission of the permittee, is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. In addition to that fine and/or imprisonment, all vessels, dredges, tongs, rakes, and other implements used to damage, disturb, interfere, or take cultivated species in those areas may be forfeited to the state.

History of Section.
P.L. 1980, ch. 219, § 2; P.L. 2002, ch. 47, § 10.