Rhode Island General Laws 20-2.1-11. Industry advisory committee
The council shall establish an industry advisory committee to provide coordination among commercial fisheries sectors and to review plans and recommendations that affect more than commercial fishery sector, and to advise the council and the department on matters that affect commercial fishing as a whole, which committee shall include representatives of each commercial fisheries sector and of manners of commercial fishing.
History of Section.
P.L. 2002, ch. 47, § 4.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 20-2.1-11
- Commercial fishing: means to take, harvest, hold, transport, load, or off-load, marine species for sale or for intended sale;
(3) "Hinge width" means the distance between the convex apex of the right shell and the convex apex of the left shell;
(4) "Land or landing" means to off-load seafood products, including, but not limited to, finfish, shellfish, and crustaceans, for sale or intended sale, or to secure a vessel with the seafood products on board to a shoreside facility where the products may be off-loaded for sale or intended sale;
(5) "Nonresident landowner" means a nonresident citizen of the United States and owner of real estate in Rhode Island as evidenced by deed filed in the recorder of deeds office in a Rhode Island town or city hall;
(6) "Peck" means one fourth (¼) of a bushel;
(7) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity;
(8) "Possession" means the exercise of dominion or control over the resource commencing at the time at which a decision is made not to return the resource to the immediate vicinity from which it was taken. See Rhode Island General Laws 20-1-3