10. Amendment of section 66 of the principal enactment

“ “aquaculture” means the cultivation, propagation or farming of fish or other living aquatic resources, and includes cultivation, propagation or farming from

“Licensing

Officers required to produce proof of identification.

eggs, spawn, spat or seed, or by rearing fish or aquatic plants or aquatic resources lawfully taken from the wild or lawfully imported into the country or by other similar process;”;

“ “aquaculture operation” means the conduct of aquaculture in any area, enclosure, pond, impoundment, premises or structure set up or used for the cultivation of aquatic plants or organisms including fish for commercial purposes and includes any bed or raft or other structure used for the cultivation of pearl oyster and other shellfish;”;

“ “Authority” means the National

Aquaculture Development

Authority of Sri Lanka established by the National

Aquaculture Development

Authority of Sri Lanka Act, No.

53 of 1998;”;

“fish” means any water dwelling aquatic or marine animal, alive or not, and includes their eggs, spawn, spat and juvenile stages, and any of their parts, and includes all organisms belonging to sedentary species;”; and

“ “sedentary species” means any marine or aquatic organisms which, at the harvestable state, are immobile on or under the bed of the sea or water, or unable to move except in constant physical contact with subsoil or bed of the sea or water, as the case may be;”.