The Department of Agriculture and Aquaculture in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick was formed when Shawn Graham became Premier on October 3, 2006. He split the departments, introducing a Bill On March 2, 2007, disbanding the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture and creating the Department of Agriculture and Aquaculture and a separate Department of Fisheries. Once it received Royal Assent, the Bill was retroactive to October 3, 2006.

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The first Department of Agriculture was created in 1882 by the government of then Premier Daniel Hanington.