Definitions

(1) ”Agency” or “TWRA” means the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. (2) “Fish Farming” means the business of rearing for sale legal species of fish and other aquatic life or the selling of legal species of fish and other aquatic life reared in private facilities. Selling may be by direct purchase or by catch-out operations. (3) “Catch-Out Operation” means the business of making-legal species of fish placed in a pond, tank, or other constructed container available to persons wishing to purchase them after catching them by legal sport fishing methods. Sport fishing licenses are not required of customers, and statewide creel and size limits do not apply. The season is open year-round. A catch-out operation may be located at sites other than a fish farm. (4) “Bait Dealer” means the business of capturing legal species of fish and other aquatic life for the purpose of sale as bait, or the business of selling legal species of fish and other aquatic life for bait. (5) “Person” means the plural as well as the singular, as the case demands, and includes individuals, associations, partnerships, firms, or corporations. (6) “Fish” means any life stage of any fish species, from egg through adult. (7) “Fish Farm” means a tract of land, including associated waters within, with an unbroken exterior boundary where fish farming occurs. (8) “Facility” means a body of water, building, or area contained within an unbroken tract of land where fish are reared or used for the purpose of buying or selling legal species of fish and other aquatic life; as opposed to merely where fish and other aquatic life are caught or harvested. (9) “Waters” means any and all water, public or private, on or beneath the surface of the ground, contained within, flow through, or bordering upon the State of Tennessee or any portion thereof. (10) “Import” means to transport, cause to be transported, or deliver to any person for the purpose of transportation from any place outside this state to any place in this state. (11) “Export” means to transport, cause to be transported or deliver to any person for the purpose of transporting from any place in this state to any place outside of this state.