For the purposes of these rules, the definitions in ORS
496.004 and OAR
635-045-0002 apply. In addition,
the following definitions apply:
(1)
"Aquaria" means any tanks, pools, ponds, bowls or other containers intended for
and capable of holding or maintaining live fish and from which there is no
outfall to any waters of this state.
(2) "Aquaria Fish" means any fish, shellfish
or marine invertebrates legally acquired and sold in the pet store trade,
except game fish, state or federally protected threatened and endangered
species and those species listed as Prohibited or Controlled.
(3) "Commercial Fur Farm" means any operation
which raises captive fox (Vulpes vulpes or Urocyon cinereoargenteus) or mink
(Mustela vison) for profit and possesses 10 or more animals.
(4) "Controlled Species" means wildlife that
the commission has placed on the Controlled list.
(5) "Domestic" means those animals which are
identified in OAR
635-056-0020 (Domestic or
Otherwise Exempt Animals).
(6)
Except where used in reference to ORS chapter 609, "Exotic" means a wildlife
species not native to Oregon; foreign or introduced.
(7) "Hold" means any form of possession or
control of an animal, gamete, or hybrid thereof.
(8) "Hybrid" means any animal, gamete or egg
that is produced by crossing at least one wild individual of a species with any
other species or subspecies.
(9)
"Import/importation" means to bring or cause live wildlife to be transported
into Oregon by any means.
(10)
"Introduced" means a species, subspecies or populations which occur in Oregon
because of human action or intervention, rather than natural (nonhuman)
colonization or immigration.
(11)
"Live Foodfish" means any fish or marine invertebrate legally acquired and held
in aquaria or packaged live and sold in the wholesale or retail trade for human
consumption, except game fish, state or federally protected threatened and
endangered species and those species listed as Prohibited or
Controlled.
(12) "Marine
invertebrate" means any marine invertebrate species commonly sold in the
wholesale or retail trade for human consumption, or commonly found in the
ornamental aquarium trade.
(13)
"Native" means species, subspecies or populations which occur currently or
historically in Oregon through natural (i.e. nonhuman) colonization or
immigration, rather than by human action or intervention.
(14) "Nonnative" means a wildlife species not
native to Oregon; foreign or introduced.
(15) "Noncontrolled Species" means wildlife
that the commission has placed on the Noncontrolled list.
(16) "Prohibited Species" means wildlife that
the commission has placed on the Prohibited list.
(17) "Species" means a unit of classification
of animals which are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile
offspring.
(18) "Subspecies" means a
unit of classification of animals within a species which show differences in
size, color or form as a result of being partially or completely reproductively
isolated from other populations of the species.
