(a) The owner of each aquaculture facility shall register all of the following information with the department by March 1 of each year:

(1) The owner’s name.

(2) The species grown.

(3) The location or locations of each operation or operations.

(b) The department may provide registration forms for this purpose, may establish a procedure for the review of the information provided to ensure that the operation will not be detrimental to native wildlife, and shall impose a registration fee of eight hundred dollars ($800) to recover the cost of reviewing new registrations. For renewing registrations, the department shall impose a registration fee of five hundred dollars ($500). It is unlawful to conduct aquaculture operations or to culture approved species of aquatic plants and animals unless registered under this section. The registration fees specified in this section are applicable to the 2013 registration year and shall be adjusted annually thereafter pursuant to Section 713.

(c) The annual registration of information required by subdivision (a) is not a project for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code).

(d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2023, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2023, deletes or extends that date.

(Amended (as added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 301, Sec. 3) by Stats. 2017, Ch. 521, Sec. 3. (SB 809) Effective January 1, 2018. Repealed as of January 1, 2023, by its own provisions. See later operative section, as amended by Sec. 4 of Stats. 2017, Ch. 521.)