79-21-5 - Definitions. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 79-21-5. Definitions.
 

As used in this chapter: 
 

(a) The term "member" shall include actual members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in associations organized with capital stock. 

(b) The term "person" shall include individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations and associations. 

(c) The term "association" means any association organized under the terms of this chapter. 

(d) The term "aquatic product" shall include all commercial products of aquatic life normally found in, or associated with, the fresh waters of the State of Mississippi, or the United States. It shall specifically include, but is not limited to, domesticated fish, fish of all species, and their byproducts, normally found in fresh water. 

(e) The term "commercial fishing" shall include all persons engaged totally or part-time in the business of catching or otherwise taking aquatic products from the fresh waters of the State of Mississippi, or the United States, for commercial purposes. 

(f) The term "domestic fish farming" shall include all persons engaged in the growing, managing, harvesting and/or marketing of domesticated fish as a cultivated crop in privately owned waters. 

(g) The term "domesticated fish" shall be understood to mean any fish that are spawned and grown, managed, harvested and marketed on an annual, semiannual, biennial, or short-term basis in privately owned waters. 

(h) The term "producer" shall mean any person engaged totally, or part-time, in the business of commercial fishing or domestic fish farming for the commercial purpose of providing aquatic products to consumers. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 4535-03; Laws,  1968, ch. 270, § 3, eff from and after passage (approved August 6, 1968).