Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 7 > Chapter 5 > Subchapter V - Restricted Propagating and Shooting Preserves

• Aquaculture: means the controlled propagation, growth, harvest and subsequent commerce in cultured aquatic stock by an aquaculturist. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Aquaculture facility: means any water system and associated infrastructures capable of holding and/or producing cultured aquatic stock. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Aquaculture registration: means the formal registration by application to the Department of Agriculture of an aquaculture facility by a person, partnership or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Aquaculturist: means an individual, partnership or corporation involved in the production of cultured aquatic stock or parts thereof. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Closed system: means an aquaculture facility with water discharge(s) that does not connect in any way to the waters of the State prior to the discharged water being screened, filtered or percolated to prevent cultured aquatic stock from escaping. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Cultured aquatic stock: means aquatic organisms, lawfully acquired by an aquaculturist that are held and grown in a registered aquaculture facility. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Domesticated: means an animal or plant trained, adapted and/or bred to live in a human controlled environment. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fee fishing: means removing cultured aquatic stock from a registered aquaculture facility in a sportsman-like manner for a payment of a fee. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Fee fishing operation: means a registered aquaculture facility where a person may fish for cultured aquatic stock. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Registered aquaculture facility: means an aquaculture facility which has a valid aquaculture registration issued by the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department or his or her designee. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Wild: means an animal or plant that is not trained, adapted and/or bred to live in a human controlled environment. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302