31 Tex. Admin. Code § 57.391 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Aquaculture
(or fish farming)--The business of producing and selling cultured aquatic
species.
(2) Aquaculturist--A
person authorized by law to engage in aquaculture, fish farming or
mariculture.
(3) Aquaculture
facility (or fish farm)--The property including private ponds from which fish,
shellfish, or aquatic plants are produced, propagated, transported, or
sold.
(4) Broodstock--An aquatic
species taken from the public waters of this state for the purpose of
aquaculture or mariculture.
(5)
Collection--Any boating, fishing, or aquatic product transportation activity
involved in the take or attempted take of broodstock.
(6) Cultured species--Aquatic species raised
under conditions where at least a portion of their life cycle is controlled by
an aquaculturist.
(7)
Department--The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
(8) Designated agent--A person designated by
an aquaculturist and approved by permit to act on behalf of that aquaculturist
in collection of broodstock.
(9)
Director--The executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department or
his designee.
(10)
Mariculture--Cultivated oyster mariculture as defined by Parks and Wildlife
Code, Chapter 75.
(11)
Progeny--Offspring of aquatic species, including eggs, fry, fingerlings, oyster
larvae, seed, and spat.
(12) Public
waters--Bays, estuaries, and water of the Gulf of Mexico within the
jurisdiction of the state, and the rivers, streams, creeks, bayous, reservoirs,
lakes, and portions of those waters where public access is available without
discrimination.
(13) Recreational
Fishing--The act of using legal means or methods to take or to attempt to take
aquatic life for noncommercial purposes from the public waters of this
state.
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