California Codes > Fish and Game Code > Division 0.5 > Chapter 1 – General Definitions
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- Anadromous fish: means fish which spawn in fresh water and spend a portion of their lives in the ocean. See California Fish and Game Code 14
- Aquaculture: means that form of agriculture devoted to the propagation, cultivation, maintenance, and harvesting of aquatic plants and animals in marine, brackish, and fresh water. See California Fish and Game Code 17
- Bird: means a wild bird or part of a wild bird. See California Fish and Game Code 22
- Buy: includes an offer to buy, purchase, barter, exchange, or trade. See California Fish and Game Code 24
- Commission: means the Fish and Game Commission, and "commissioner" means a member of the Fish and Game Commission. See California Fish and Game Code 30
- County: includes city and county. See California Fish and Game Code 32
- Credible science: means the best available scientific information that is not overly prescriptive due to the dynamic nature of science, and includes the evaluation principles of relevance, inclusiveness, objectivity, transparency, timeliness, verification, validation, and peer review of information as appropriate. See California Fish and Game Code 33
- Day: means calendar day, and "week" means calendar week. See California Fish and Game Code 35
- Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife. See California Fish and Game Code 37
- Director: means the Director of Fish and Wildlife. See California Fish and Game Code 39
- District: means fish and game district. See California Fish and Game Code 41
- Fish: means a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals. See California Fish and Game Code 45
- Kelp: means kelp or other marine aquatic plants and the seeds thereof. See California Fish and Game Code 51
- Mammal: means a wild or feral mammal or part of a wild or feral animal, but not a wild, feral, or undomesticated burro. See California Fish and Game Code 54
- Mile: means either a statute mile (5,280 feet) or a nautical mile (6,077 feet) depending on the application. See California Fish and Game Code 55
- Person: means any natural person or any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust, or other type of association. See California Fish and Game Code 67
- Purchase: means "buy" as defined in Section 24. See California Fish and Game Code 68
- Resident: means any person who has resided continuously in the State of California for six months or more immediately prior to the date of his application for a license or permit, any person on active military duty with the Armed Forces of the United States or auxiliary branch thereof, or any person enrolled in the Job Corps established pursuant to Section 2883 of Title 29 of the United States Code. See California Fish and Game Code 70
- season: means "open season. See California Fish and Game Code 62
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Fish and Game Code 83
- Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Fish and Game Code 73
- subscription: includes mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near the signer's or subscriber's name. See California Fish and Game Code 81
- Take: means hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill, or attempt to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill. See California Fish and Game Code 86
- Wildlife: means and includes all wild animals, birds, plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and related ecological communities, including the habitat upon which the wildlife depends for its continued viability. See California Fish and Game Code 89.5