Dienstleistungsportal Bayern

An "aquaculture business" is any business that carries out an activity in connection with the breeding, keeping or rearing of fish.

Regardless of whether it is a main occupation, a secondary or additional occupation or a private hobby

• Aquaculture businesses that produce set fish or sell food fish in large quantities (also nationwide) and
• processing plants in which fish from aquacultures are killed as part of disease control measures,

a permit from the competent veterinary office.

The application for approval must contain the following information:

• Name and address of the operator
• Location and size of the facility
• Number of ponds
• Water supply
• Inflow volume
• Animal species kept and their use
• Description of the measures taken to prevent the spread of diseases
• If applicable, information on the treatment of waste water

The following businesses are only required to register with the competent veterinary office:

• Establishments that keep fish that are not intended to be placed on the market, e.g. zoological facilities
• Businesses that supply small quantities of fish from their own aquaculture (the direct supply of small (household) quantities includes fish reared by themselves and supplied as live, slaughtered or processed food fish) exclusively for human consumption directly to the end consumer or to local retail businesses (no intermediate trade) and
• operators of fishing ponds (ponds in which fish are stocked exclusively for recreational fishing).

The following information must be provided for the notification of the business:

• Name and address of the operator
• Location and size of the facility
• Number of ponds
• Water supply
• Inflow volume
• Fish species kept and their use