Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1660-01-26-.01 - DEFINITIONS
(1) "Agency" or "TWRA" means the Tennessee
Wildlife Resources Agency.
(2)
"Fish Farming" means the business of rearing for sale legal species of fish and
other aquatic life or the selling of legal species of fish and other aquatic
life reared in private facilities. Selling may be by direct purchase or by
catch-out operations.
(3)
"Catch-Out Operation" means the business of making-legal species of fish placed
in a pond, tank, or other constructed container available to persons wishing to
purchase them after catching them by legal sport fishing methods. Sport fishing
licenses are not required of customers, and statewide creel and size limits do
not apply. The season is open year-round. A catch-out operation may be located
at sites other than a fish farm.
(4) "Bait Dealer" means the business of
capturing legal species of fish and other aquatic life for the purpose of sale
as bait, or the business of selling legal species of fish and other aquatic
life for bait.
(5) "Person" means
the plural as well as the singular, as the case demands, and includes
individuals, associations, partnerships, firms, or corporations.
(6) "Fish" means any life stage of any fish
species, from egg through adult.
(7) "Fish Farm" means a tract of land,
including associated waters within, with an unbroken exterior boundary where
fish farming occurs.
(8) "Facility"
means a body of water, building, or area contained within an unbroken tract of
land where fish are reared or used for the purpose of buying or selling legal
species of fish and other aquatic life; as opposed to merely where fish and
other aquatic life are caught or harvested.
(9) "Waters" means any and all water, public
or private, on or beneath the surface of the ground, contained within, flow
through, or bordering upon the State of Tennessee or any portion
thereof.
(10) "Import" means to
transport, cause to be transported, or deliver to any person for the purpose of
transportation from any place outside this state to any place in this
state.
(11) "Export" means to
transport, cause to be transported or deliver to any person for the purpose of
transporting from any place in this state to any place outside of this
state.
Notes
Authority: T.C.A. ยงยง 70-1-206 and 70-2-221.
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