Code of Maine Rules
13 - DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES
188 - MARINE RESOURCES - GENERAL
Chapter 41 - MENHADEN
Section 188-41-25 - Definitions

A. Hogshead: one hogshead equals 17.5 lb bushels.

B. Bushel: one bushel equals 70 lbs of menhaden.

C. Barrel: one barrel equals 55 liquid gallons; or, 5 bushel of menhaden.

D. Truck: one truck equals 40,000 lbs of menhaden.

E. Fish tote: a standard fish tote (tray), measuring 28 inches long x 16 inches wide x 11 inches deep, when level full, equals 1/3 barrel.

F. Crate: a crate equals two and one half bushels or 175 pounds of menhaden.

G. Fish Tank or Box: a standard Saeplast or Bonar brand fish tank with internal measurements of 38 inches long x 38 inches wide x 44 inches deep and when filled to allow for a sealed cover, equals 20 bushels.

H. Landing: to come to shore, float or a dock and offload menhaden.

I. Harvester vessel: the vessel that deploys the net to fish for, take and possess menhaden. A harvester vessel is in possession of fish once the net encircles and traps the fish.

J. Set: To place from a harvester vessel a purse seine or a bait gillnet in the coastal waters of the state for the purpose of taking menhaden.

K. Pound net or trap net: a type of entrapment gear that consists of an arrangement of netting or wire supported upon stakes or piles and has the head ropes or lines above the water or in a frame that is supported by floats and anchors. A pound net or trap net may consist of an enclosure known as the pound proper, crib or pocket which has a netting floor and section known as a heart from the entrance of which a straight wall known as the leader or runner extends outward. There may be several combinations of hearts, pounds or pockets. Finfish are voluntarily directed by the leader towards and into the heart and/or pound, and then into the crib or pocket where they are removed periodically by various devices and methods, such as dip nets.

L. Fish weir: any fixed type of fishing equipment that consists of fences made of wooden stakes or out of other materials constructed in such a manner so as to intercept or attempt to intercept finfish. The fences form successive enclosures called the heart, pound and pocket into which the finfish are directed by a prolonged fence known as a leader.

M. Dory: a boat with no mechanical means of propulsion that is towed to and from the fishing grounds by the harvester vessel.