Rhode Island General Laws 20-3.1-6. Information systems and data collection
The department, in consultation with the council, shall develop and implement for license renewals for the year beginning January 1, 2003, an electronic license system for commercial fishing licenses, which licensing system shall have the capacity to incorporate data on landings by species and effort and shall provide for electronic license renewal. The licensing system shall be designed so that appropriate confidentiality for individual license holders is maintained and data analysis for fisheries management purposes is facilitated.
History of Section.
P.L. 2001, ch. 58, § 5.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 20-3.1-6
- 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