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Federal Agencies and
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Establish in 1862
Headed by Secretary of Agriculture
Administers loans, grants-in-aid, and assists in production
Many other agencies and services work with USDA
Responsibility
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Enforcement of standards of identity
Plant sanitation inspection
Veterinary inspection of meat
Grading of meat, dairy, fruit and vegetable products
Other Agencies and Services Working
with USDA
 Agricultural Marketing Service
 Agricultural Research Service
 Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service
 Cooperative State Research,
Education and Extension
Service
 Food Safety and Inspection
Service
 Farm Service Agency
 Foreign Agricultural Service
 National Agricultural Library
 National Agricultural
Statistics Service
 Natural Resources
Conservation Service
 Risk Management Agency
 Regional Aquaculture
Center
 Alternative Farming Systems
Information Center
U.S. Department of the Army
 Includes all U.S. military land forces under the Department of
Defense
 Army Corps of Engineers
 Ag projects that involve the discharge of dredged or fill
materials into the waters of the US, including marshes and
wetlands
 Construction in the navigable waters of the US must have a
permit from the Army Corps of Engineers
 Makes decision based on a balancing of positive and negative
impacts of the project
 Permit required before clearing or building in a site classified
as a wetland
U.S. Department of Commerce
 Executive department of the U.S. government and
was established in 1913
 Headed by Secretary of Commerce
 Supervises transportation and shipping, the census,
and food and drug laws
 Five offices of the Dept. of Commerce has a role in
aquaculture
1. Economic Development
Administration
 Helps alleviate conditions of substantial and
persistent unemployment and underemployment in
economically distressed areas and regions of the
nation
 EDA can consider funding aquaculture projects that
meet the agency’s regulations, applicant eligibility
requirements, and project selection criteria
2. National Environmental Satellite, Data and
Information Service/ National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
 Four informational programs for aquaculture are
sponsored by NESDIS and NOAA
1. The Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System
(ASFIS): computerized system operated and maintained
by UN agencies and a network of information centers in
member countries
 ASFIS is the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
(ASFA) database
 Database covers international aquaculture and other
topics in the marine and freshwater environmental
sciences
2. NESDIS/ NOAA
2. National Environmental Data Referral Service
(NEDRES)
 On-line database containing over 22,000 descriptions
and locations of data files on the environmental
sciences held by people and organizations in the US
and Canada
2. NESDIS/ NOAA
3. The NOAA Earth System Data Directory (NESDD)
 On-line guide to about 700 environmental data sets
held by NOAA
 NESDD provides data to NOAA centers and other
organizational components
 Provides the research community with the means to
locate NOAA data
2. NESDIS/ NOAA
4. NOAA Library and Information Network
 Central library in Rockville, Maryland, major branches
in Miami and Seattle
 Laboratory and information centers throughout the
US
 Collections encompass more than one million
volumes on marine and atmospheric sciences,
aquaculture and environmental disciplines
3. National Marine Fisheries Service/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)
 Manages common property resources and
contributing to the restoration and protection of
endangered species of stocks
 NMFS distributes aquaculture-related information
and technological advances gained from its fisheries
research
3. National Marine Fisheries Service/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 NMFS cooperated with federal and state agencies,
international bodies and foreign governments to
develop and expand the markets for US aquaculture
 Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP)
 Comprehensive quality inspection program for fish and
seafood production companies
 Developed criteria for acceptance and identifies any
corrective actions needed
4. National Sea Grant College Program.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 Conducts research, extension and educational
programs with universities in all coastal and Great
Lakes states
 Genetics, biotechnology, endocrinology, physiology,
pathology, engineering, nutrition, policy economics
and others focused
 30 Sea Grant programs in the coastal and Great Lakes
States
5. National Technical Information Service
 NTIS
 Central source for the archiving and public sale of U.S.
government-sponsored research and development
reports in all subjects
U.S. Department of Energy
 Established 1977
 Headed by Secretary of Energy
 Controls energy use, research and radioactive waste material
 National Biofuels
 Solar Energy Research Institute conduct aquatic species
research to develop technology base for production of liquid
fuels from mass culture of microalgae
 Supports fundamental research of genetics, lipid physiology,
lipid biochemistry
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services
 Established 1979
 Headed by Secretary of Health and Human Services
 Administers social security and other welfare services,
and supervises public health
 Food and Drug Administration is part of this department
Food and Drug Administration Center
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
 Primary federal office with responsibility for the assurance
of seafood safety
 Many programs devoted to research and management of
seafood
 Derives authority through Federal Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and the Public Health Service Act
(PHSA)
 FFDCA: ensure that seafood is shipped or received in
interstate commerce is ‘safe, wholesome and not misbranded
or deceptively packaged’
 PHSA: control the spread of communicable disease from one
state, territory or possession to another
Food and Drug Administration,
Center for Veterinary Medicine
 CVM is responsible for the regulation of animal drugs,
animal feeds, and veterinary medical devices
 Four major areas in aquaculture
1. Approval of Animal Drugs and Feeds
2. Oversight of Drug Distribution and Use
3. Research
4. Educational Initiatives
U.S. Department of the Interior
 Established in 1849
 Headed by Secretary of the Interior
 Includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs and agencies for
the conservation of natural resources and supervision
of power projects
 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 FWS restores depleted fish populations,
preserves endangered species, moderates the
impacts of federal water developments on fish
populations, manages fish resources on federal
lands, and provides scientific leadership in
fishery resource management
 Many different facilities including hatcheries,
fisheries, health centers and more
 Encourage the development of private
aquaculture in a manner that is compatible with
responsible natural resource stewardship
 Make service expertise, knowledge, and
technical/scientific capabilities in fish culture
and related disciplines available to the private
aquaculture community
U.S. Geological Survey
 USGS collects a large amount of information on the
availability and quality of ground water and surface
water supplies
 Information such as pollutant levels, aquifer locations,
lake levels, stream flows and other data useful to
aquaculture is available from the USGS in a variety of
forms
U.S. Agency for International
Development
 AID
 Supports aquaculture research and development
projects where significant opportunities exist to use
this form of food production to increase incomes and
employment opportunities in developing countries
 Supports applied research
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
 EPA
 Clean Water Act of 1972 designates fish hatcheries and
farms as point sources of pollution of waters receiving
their discharges
 Each state issues permits and monitors effluents from fishraising facilities
 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
issues permits for the discharge of wastewaters to surface
waters, including discharges from aquaculture systems