The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs has published the Environmental Impact Assessment Guideline for Aquaculture in South Africa under section 24J(a) of the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998. This guideline seeks to, inter alia:
- Provide a better understanding of what aquaculture is and what the core functional and operational elements of aquaculture are;
- Align the EIA process and environmental authorizations to the specific nature of aquaculture;
- Present measures of mitigation to the potential impacts of aquaculture.
