Monitoring and assessment
For the aquaculture industry to be productive, competitive and ecologically sustainable we use:
- policies
- plans
- licence conditions
- regulations.
Environmental monitoring program
Environmental monitoring program (EMP) reports are required through legislation to provide us with annual summaries of aquaculture activities and allow an assessment of potential environmental impacts and compliance to legislation.
Licence holders must complete and submit reports online through the myPIRSA portal so that your activity can be assessed. This ensures that the environmental impacts of operations are minimised through appropriate management actions.
The reports record information that includes, but is not limited to:
- water discharge
- species farmed
- biomass held on site
- feed inputs
- disease incidents
- chemical use.
It is important that environmental monitoring program reports are completed and returned so the information can be used as the basis of regional environmental reports. Find out when to submit reports for:
Finfish escape register
Under the Aquaculture Regulations 2016, all marine aquaculture licence holders must report any cases of stock escaping to PIRSA. All finfish escape reports are publicly available through the finfish escape register.
Adopt a beach program
This debris monitoring and cleanup program was developed by the Port Lincoln aquaculture industry, in partnership with PIRSA Fisheries and Aquaculture. Learn about the Adopt a beach program.
Contact
For questions about the EMP, please contact us:
Phone: (08) 8429 0509
Email: pirsa.aquaculture@sa.gov.au
