31 Tex. Admin. Code § 69.75 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Certified
Inspector--An employee of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department or the Texas
A&M Sea Grant College Program who has satisfactorily completed a department
approved course in clinical analysis of shellfish.
(2) Clinical Analysis Checklist--An
inspection form provided by the department specifying sampling protocols and
listing certain characteristics which may constitute manifestations of
disease.
(3) Disease--Contagious
pathogens or injurious parasites which may be a threat to the health of natural
populations of aquatic organisms.
(4) Disease-Free--A status based on the
results of an examination conducted by a department approved shellfish disease
specialist that certifies a group of aquatic organisms as being free of
disease.
(5) Immediately--Without
delay; with no intervening span of time.
(6) Manifestations of disease--Manifestations
of disease include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: heavy
or unusual predator activity, empty guts, emaciation, rostral deformity,
digestive gland atrophy or necrosis, gross pathology of shell or underlying
skin typical of viral infection, fragile or atypically soft shell, gill
fouling, or gill discoloration.
(7)
Private facility--A pond, tank, cage or other structure capable of holding
native shellfish in confinement wholly within or on private land or water or
wholly within or on permitted public land or water.
(8) Quarantine condition--Confinement of
native penaeid shrimp such that neither the shrimp nor the water in which they
are or were maintained comes into contact with other fish or
shellfish.
(9) Waste--Waste shall
have the same meaning as in Chapter 26, §
26.001(6)
of the Texas Water Code.
(10) Water
in the state--Water in the state shall have the same meaning as in Chapter 26,
§
26.001(5)
of the Texas Water Code.
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