Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1)
(a) "Aquaculture product" means privately
purchased, domestically produced aquatic organisms, or their gametes.
(b) "Aquaculture product" does not mean
aquatic wildlife obtained from the wild, aquatic wildlife produced by the state
or federally owned aquaculture facilities, or ornamental aquatic animal
species.
(2) "Aquaponics
facility" means a facility that combines fish and plant culture for a
non-commercial purpose where:
(a) all water
flowing into or through the facility is completely isolated from any other
water source via a self-contained water transport system;
(b) all water and waste flowing from the
facility is discharged into a permitted sewer or septic system;
(c) the aquatic animals held within the
facility are used for non-commercial purposes only;
(d) no aquatic animals or their gametes are
transported from the facility alive; and
(e) the primary use of the facility is for
food production and not for the general display of fish in aquaria.
(3) "Institutional aquaculture"
means aquaculture engaged in by a school, college, university, or other
educational program, or public agency other than the division.
(4) "Lake" means a naturally formed,
perennial or intermittent, non-flowing waterbody that collects and keeps water
in quantity for use
(5) "Natural
stream channel" means a body of water that maintains continuous, seasonal or
potential flow, as determined by the division.
(6) "Private fish pond" means a standing body
of water or any fish culture system which:
(a)
is not located on a natural lake, natural flowing stream, or reservoir
constructed on a natural stream channel;
(b) is contained entirely on privately owned
land; and
(c) is used for holding
or rearing fish for a private, noncommercial purpose.
(7) "Reservoir" means an artificially
constructed, non-flowing waterbody that is used to collect and keep water in
quantity for use built by damming a natural stream channel.
(8) "Short-term fishing event" means an event
where:
(a) privately acquired fish are held or
confined for a period not to exceed ten days in a temporary event
tank;
(b) for the purposes of
providing a recreational opportunity; and
(c) no fee is charged as a requirement to
fish.
