When used in this chapter:
(1) "Aquaculture" means controlled cultivation of an aquatic species in confinement.
(2) "Aquaculture business" means being involved in aquaculture for a commercial purpose.
(3) "Aquacultured product" means any living or nonliving form, part, or portion of an aquatic species spawned, raised, or produced by means of aquaculture, including an egg or offspring thereof.
(4) "Aquaculturist" means a person or entity engaged in aquaculture.
(5) "Commercial purpose" means the culture, processing, purchase, sale, transfer, exchange, or the offer or exposure for sale, transfer, or exchange of a product, or engaging in aquaculture or aquaculture business in order to derive income or other consideration.
(6) "Nonindigenous species" means a species, strain, or variety not native to this State and not established in the wild in this State.
(7) "Person" means an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, club, private body, or other entity.
(8) "Processor" means a person who engages in cutting, dressing, or filleting a product for commercial purposes, other than when prepared and sold directly to the consumer.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 60, Section 1.