Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 76.001 – Definitions
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Terms Used In Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 76.001
- Take: except as otherwise provided by this code, means collect, hook, hunt, net, shoot, or snare, by any means or device, and includes an attempt to take or to pursue in order to take. See Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 1.101
In this chapter:
(1) “Barrel of oysters” means three boxes of oysters in the shell or two gallons of shucked oysters without shells. The dimensions of a box are 10 inches by 20 inches by 13-1/2 inches. In filling a box for measurement, the oysters may not be piled more than 2-1/2 inches above the height of the box at the center.
(2) “Natural oyster bed” means an area with a substrate that is predominantly composed of oyster shell or live oysters.
(3) “Open season” means a period during which it is lawful to take oysters.