Iowa Code 481A.142 – Licensed aquaculture units — activities allowed
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A holder of an aquaculture unit license may:
1. Possess, propagate, buy, sell, deal in, and transport the aquatic organisms produced from breeding stock legally acquired, including minnows.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 481A.142
- Aquaculture: means the controlled propagation, growth, and harvest of aquatic organisms, including, but not limited to fish, amphibians, reptiles, mollusks, crustaceans, gastropods, algae, and other aquatic plants, by an aquaculturist. See Iowa Code 481A.1
- Aquaculture unit: means all private waters for aquaculture with or without buildings, used for the purpose of propagating, raising, holding, or harvesting aquatic organisms for commercial purposes. See Iowa Code 481A.1
- Bait: includes but is not limited to minnows, green sunfish, orange-spotted sunfish, gizzard shad, frogs, crayfish, and salamanders. See Iowa Code 481A.1
- Buy: means to purchase, offer to purchase, barter for, trade for, or lease. See Iowa Code 481A.1
- Dealer: means a person who engages in whole or in part in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging vessels either outright or on conditional sale, bailment, lease, security interest, or otherwise, and who has an established place of business for sale, trade, and display of vessels. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- Department: means the department of natural resources. See Iowa Code 481A.1
- Department: means the department of natural resources. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- Fish: means a member of the class Pisces. See Iowa Code 481A.1
- Minnows: means chubs, suckers, shiners, dace, stonerollers, mud minnows, redhorse, blunt-nose, and fathead minnows. See Iowa Code 481A.1
- Nonresident: means every person who is not a resident of this state. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- Operator: means a person who operates or is in actual physical control of a vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property right in or title to a motorboat or vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. Sell fish for stocking purposes within or outside the state. Fish which are nonindigenous to Iowa shall not be received or sold in the state unless the aquaculture unit has obtained an importation permit from the department. The department shall establish, by rule, requirements governing importation, and shall include a list of approved aquaculture species. Failure to comply with this subsection will result in loss of license and a violator is subject to the scheduled fine provided in section 805.8B.
3. Hold, feed, and sell carp, buffalofish, and other fish legally taken by commercial fishers.
4. Harvest aquatic life on land under control of the aquaculture unit with commercial devices without obtaining any permits for the devices.
5. a. Sell bait, including minnows and frogs, propagated or raised within the licensed unit without having to obtain a bait dealer‘s license. However, aquaculture units wishing to take bait from areas other than their licensed units must also obtain a bait dealer’s license.
b. A nonresident aquaculture unit licensee shall be limited to selling bait at wholesale unless the home state of the nonresident licensee allows residents of this state to sell bait at retail.
6. Take any gull, tern, or merganser within the bounds of the unit. An owner or operator of the licensed aquaculture unit, however, must first obtain a permit for this activity from the department or the United States fish and wildlife service. Each permittee shall file an annual report with the department which itemizes the birds taken during the period covered by the permit, and dispose of birds taken according to methods established by the department. The department shall not issue a subsequent permit to any person failing to file this report.