Feeding
Feeding is offering, giving, or attempting to give food or non-food items to marine mammals in the wild. It includes operating a vessel or providing other platforms from which feeding is conducted or supported. It does not include the routine discard of bycatch during fishing operations or the routine discharge of waste or fish byproducts from fish processing plants or other platforms if the discharge is otherwise legal and is incidental to operation of the activity.
Source
50 CFR § 216.3
Scoping language
In addition to definitions contained in the MMPA, and unless the context otherwise requires, in this part 216: