Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 51 - PRIVATE FISH HATCHERIES › Section 51-3 - Application for a Fish Hatchery license

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Any person intending to operate a private
				fish hatchery shall obtain a commercial fish hatchery license and post a surety
				bond with the Department in accordance with W.S. § 234 - 102. The owner or
				operator shall submit an application, including proper fees, on a form provided
				by the department. The application shall be legible, fully completed and
				include the following:
(i) The name, complete
				mailing address and telephone number of the applicant, the name of the hatchery
				and the name of the owner, if different from the applicant.
(ii) The address of the hatchery, the
				geographic coordinates of the hatchery or the range, township, section, quarter
				(1/4) section and county name.
(iii) The water source and name of the water
				that receives effluent from the hatchery.
(iv) The species and source of all fish, fish
				eggs or fish gametes to be possessed, propagated, sold, traded or transported
				to or from the fish hatchery for which the license application is being made.
(A) Fish used in a private fish hatchery
				shall be limited to coldwater, coolwater, warmwater and tropical fish species.
(I) Private fish hatcheries dealing primarily
				in tropical or ornamental fish may also be authorized to use nongame fish (as
				defined in Commission Regulation Chapter 69, Importation and Possession of Live
				Cold-Blooded Wildlife).
(B) The Department may exempt private fish
				hatcheries licensed primarily for tropical or ornamental fish from the specific
				requirements of this subsection.
(v) A legal description to the
				quarter-quarter (1/4 - 1/4) section, or latitudelongitude coordinates in
				degrees, minutes and seconds, or in universal transverse mercator (UTM)
				coordinates of all fee title lands on which the hatchery will operate shall be
				included.
(vi) If fee title lands
				are leased for operation of any portion of the hatchery, a copy of the lease
				agreement shall be included with the application form.
(vii) Application for a new private fish
				hatchery shall also include, but not be limited to, a map and diagrammatic
				sketch of all aquaculture facilities, water supplies and effluent drainages.
				The name of the stream or body of water into which effluent from the hatchery
				is discharged or would possibly be discharged into in the event of flooding
				shall be provided. Any ponds shall be identified with a unique name or number
				and size in surface acres.
(viii)
				Application for transfer of an existing private fish hatchery to a new licensee
				shall include a record of fish, fish eggs and fish gametes upon transfer. A new
				licensee shall receive the last three (3) years fish production records from
				the previous licensee.
(A) Before an existing
				private fish hatchery is licensed to a new licensee, the Department may inspect
				aquaculture facilities and request full disclosure of all fish production
				records for the past three (3) years of operation including complete inventory
				of fish, fish eggs or fish gametes at the time of transfer.