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Section 2 substituted by the Act No.36 of 2020, s.2. (11) “Aquaculture” means growing of aquatic organism in confined waters with human intervention from smaller size to larger size; (12) “Aquatic Organism” means an animal or plant of any species or hybrid thereof, and includes gametes, seeds, egg, sperm, larvae, juvenile and adult stages, any one of which is required to be in water (of any salinity) during that stage of its life. It includes but not limited to cartilaginous and bony fishes, freshwater and marine prawn and shrimp, crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms, amphibians tortoises, plankton, seaweeds, aquatic plants and all other aquatic organisms at all stages of their life cycle and any other animal/s declared from time to time by the Government through notification; (13) “Aquatic Quarantine Facility (AQF)” means any place approved for maintaining a group of live aquatic organisms in isolation with no direct or indirect contact with other aquatic animals or aquatic environment, in order to test them for the presence of pathogens, for a specified length of time period; (14) “Bio security” means the integrated approach to analyze and manage relevant risks of pathogens to aquatic organisms; (15) “Brooder Multiplication Center (BMC)” means a place where specific pathogen free aquatic organisms are reared from early stage of their life cycle to sexually matured adult stage for using them as brooders for aquaculture seed production; (16) “Brood stock” means a group of sexually matured male and female aquatic organisms maintained and used in hatcheries for the purpose of aquaculture seed production; (17) “Certification” means the procedure by which written assurance is given that a product/process/service conforms to specific requirement; (18) “Certified Seed” means the Aquaculture Seed certified by means of the certification under this Act; (19) “Committee” means the Aquaculture Seed Committee and other Committees constituted under sections 3, 4 and 5; (20) “Company” means company as defined in the Companies Act, 2013 (Central Act No.18 of 2013); (21) “Container” means a box, bottle, casket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, wrapper or other thing in which any aquaculture seeds are packed; (22) “Controlling Authority” means the officer who is responsible for the overall enforcement of this Act in the entire State of Andhra Pradesh; (23) “Court” means any Court not less than a Court of Judicial Magistrate of First Class in the State of Andhra Pradesh; (24) “Designated Committee” means the Committee in the presence of which the Aquaculture Seed Inspector shall act under sub-section (4) of section 13; (25) “Endorsement” means endorsement done under this Act to any license/ registration issued before commencement of this law under any other Act. Once endorsement is done, it shall be deemed to be a fresh license issued under this Act and will be governed by provisions of this Act and Rules made there under; (26) “Export” means taking Aquaculture seed from the State or Country to a place outside State or Country; (27) “Firm means a firm / partnership firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (Central Act No 9 of 1932) ; (28) “Fish Seed Farm” means a place with structures for rearing of early stages of fish seed such as spawn or hatchlings to the stages of fry, fingerlings, advanced fingerlings, sub adults; (29) “Fish” means all cartilaginous and bony fishes, freshwater and marine prawn and shrimp, crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms, amphibians, tortoises and all other aquatic organisms at all stages of their life cycle and any other animal/s declared from time to time by the Government through notification; (30) “Fisherman” means a person who is involved in capture fishery activity by occupation and also includes fishermen by birth; (31) “Government” means the State Government of Andhra Pradesh; (32) “Hatchery” means a production unit, where brooders are maintained and used for production of seed of any stage of life cycle of any aquatic organism by following established methods for rearing them to advanced stage through aquaculture; (33) “Import” means bringing Aquaculture seed into the State or Country from a place outside the State or Country; (34) “Kind” means one or more related species or such species of aquatic organisms each individually or collectively are known by one common name such as Carps, Shrimp, Prawn, Crab, Lobsters, Sea weeds, Aquarium plants etc; (35) “Larval Rearing Center” means the unit in which nauplii or any other life stage of any species is brought from a hatchery and reared in the unit up to a later stage of its life cycle. These units will not have facilities for maintenance and usage of brooders; (36) “License” means any license given under this Act in favour of any person or company / firm for operating hatchery / Larval Rearing Center or any other Unit; (37) “Licensing Authority” means the officer who is empowered to grant licenses to under this Act; (38) “Notification” means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette; (39) “Notified kind or variety” means any kind or variety of aquatic organism notified under this Act; (40) “Nucleus Breeding Centre (NBC)” means a facility where Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) aquatic organisms are raised over a number of generations in a highly bio-secure environment, excluding a number of pathogens of concern from the facility. A strict surveillance protocol is followed to ensure that the pathogens are excluded. A highly bio-secure NBC is used for producing multiple generations of the SPF stock; (41) “Ornamental Seed” means the early life stages of aquatic organisms used for the purpose of recreation; (42) “Pathogen” means an infectious agent capable of causing disease; (43) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (44) “Specific Pathogen Free (SPF)” means aquatic organism that have been produced and are tested and held under rigorous conditions of biosecurity that provide assurances that they are free of certain specified pathogens. Once animals leave an SPF facility, they are no longer considered to have an SPF status; (45) “Standard Aquaculture Seed” means any Aquaculture Seed complying standards prescribed under this Act or rules made thereunder; (46) “Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)” means a set of instructions having the force of a directive, covering those features of operations that lend themselves to a definite or standardized procedure without loss of effectiveness; (47) “Sub-standard Aquaculture Seed” means any Aquaculture Seed not in compliance with the standards prescribed under the Act and Rules made thereunder; (48) “Variety” means a sub-division of a kind identifiable by morphology, growth, yield, seed or other characteristics;”] CHAPTER - II 1[3. Constitution of State Level Aqua-culture Seed Committee – . (1) The Government may constitute a committee called the State Level Aquaculture Seed Committee consisting of the following members :- (i) Special Chief Secretary, AHDD & F Department shall be the Ex-officio Chairman; (ii) Commissioner of Fisheries, who shall be the Member Secretary; (iii) Technical Director, Coastal Aquaculture Authority (CAA), Chennai shall be one of the member; (iv) Dean, Faculty of Fishery Science, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University, Tirupati shall be the one of the Member; (v) One representative from MPEDA not below the rank of Joint Director shall be one of the member; (vi) One representative from Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture(RGCA) shall be one of the member; (vii) One representative from Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) shall be one of the member; (viii) One member each from Central Institute of Brackish Water Aquaculture(CIBA),Chennai, Central Institute of Fresh Water Aquaculture(CIFA), Bhubaneswar, Drug Controlling Authority (DCA);