Utah Code 4-37-103. Definitions

Superseded 7/1/2023)

Superseded 7/1/2023
4-37-103. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:

(1)	“Aquaculture” means the controlled cultivation of aquatic animals.

Aquaculture: means the controlled cultivation of aquatic animals. See Utah Code 4-37-103
Aquaculture facility: means any tank, canal, raceway, pond, off-stream reservoir, or other structure used for aquaculture. See Utah Code 4-37-103
Fee fishing facility: means a body of water used for holding or rearing fish for the purpose of providing fishing for a fee or for pecuniary consideration or advantage. See Utah Code 4-37-103
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5

(2)

(a)

(i)	“Aquaculture facility” means any tank, canal, raceway, pond, off-stream reservoir, or other structure used for aquaculture.

(ii)	“Aquaculture facility” does not include any public aquaculture facility or fee fishing facility.

(b)	Structures that are separated by more than 1/2 mile, or structures that drain to or are modified to drain to, different drainages, are considered separate aquaculture facilities regardless of ownership.

(3)

(a)	“Aquatic animal” means a member of any species of fish, mollusk, crustacean, or amphibian.

(b)	“Aquatic animal” includes a gamete of any species listed in Subsection (3)(a).

(4)	“Fee fishing facility” means a body of water used for holding or rearing fish for the purpose of providing fishing for a fee or for pecuniary consideration or advantage.

(5)	“Natural flowing stream” means the same as that term is defined in Section 23-13-2.

(6)	“Natural lake” means the same as that term is defined in Section 23-13-2.

(7)	“Private fish pond” means the same as that term is defined in Section 23-13-2.

(8)	“Public aquaculture facility” means a tank, canal, raceway, pond, off-stream reservoir, or other structure used for aquaculture by the Division of Wildlife Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a mosquito abatement district, or an institution of higher education.

(9)	“Public fishery resource” means fish produced in public aquaculture facilities and wild and free ranging populations of fish in the surface waters of the state.

(10)	“Reservoir constructed on a natural stream channel” means the same as that term is defined in Section 23-13-2.

(11)	“Short-term fishing event” means the same as that term is defined in Section 23-13-2.

Amended by Chapter 412, 2017 General Session