Md. Code Regs. 08.02.19.02 - Definitions
A. In this chapter, the
following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Aquaculture" means the rearing for commercial
purposes of a species of fish or aquatic plant as listed in and described in COMAR
08.02.14 and may include the purchase, sale, possession, capture, production,
breeding, transportation, and processing of fish or aquatic plants.
(2) "Aquatic organism" means a living organism
that spends part of its life in water.
(3) "Felt sole" means a sole to which felt or any
other natural or synthetic porous material capable of absorbing liquid is
attached.
(4) "Historically" means
commonly accepted to have been in State waters in the year 1500.
(5) "Hybrid" means the offspring of any species of
fish of genetically dissimilar parents or stock.
(6) "Introduction into State waters" means the
deliberate or accidental release of an aquatic organism into State waters.
(7) "Native" means having historically lived,
grown, and reproduced in State waters.
(8) "Naturalized" means documented as having
lived, grown, and reproduced in State waters for more than 10 years without known
harm to the ecosystem.
(9) "Nonnative "
means any species other than native or naturalized.
(10) "Nuisance organism" means a nonnative aquatic
organism that will foreseeably alter and threaten to harm the ecosystem or the
abundance and diversity of native or naturalized aquatic organisms.
(11) "State waters" means tidal and nontidal
waters located within the boundaries of the State, including that portion of the
Atlantic Ocean within the boundaries of the State, the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries, and all ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, public ditches, tax ditches, and
public drainage systems within the State.
(12) "Transgenic" means an organism into which
genetic material from another organism has been experimentally transferred so that
the host acquires the genetic traits of the transferred genes.
(13) "Transport" means to move a nonnative aquatic
organism from the waters of one watershed, as named by Maryland Integrated Watershed
Data and Information System 6-digit map, and introduce it into the waters of another
watershed, as named by Maryland Integrated Watershed Data and Information System
6-digit map.
(14) "Without known harm"
means a species has acclimated or adapted to life in Maryland's waters for more than
50 years without diminishing the abundance, diversity, distribution or reproduction
of a native species or degrading water quality requirements for a native
species.
C. A term used in
this chapter and not defined in this regulation has:
(1) The meaning given to the term in a relevant
statute or regulation; or
(2) If not
defined in statute or regulation, the meaning attributed in common use.
Notes
Regulation .02B amended effective November 3, 2008 (35:22 Md. R. 1956); February 6, 2012 (39:2 Md. R. 140)
Regulation .02 adopted effective November 6, 2006 (33:22 Md. R. 1731)
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