Essential Fish Habitat Law and Legal Definition
Pursuant to 16 USCS § 1802 (10), [Title 16. Conservation; Chapter 38. Fishery Conservation and Management; Generally] the term essential fish habitat means “those waters and substrate necessary to fish for spawning, breeding, feeding or growth to maturity.”
Legal Definition list
- Essential Experimental Population of Fauna
- Essential Experimental Population
- Essential Components of Reading Instruction
- Essential Business Property
- Essential Agricultural Use
- Essential Fish Habitat
- Essential Job Function
- Essential Job Functions
- Essential Nutrients [Food and Drugs]
- Essential Vessel
- Essentialia Negotii
Related Legal Terms
- Adverse Modification of Critical Habitat
- Anadromous Fish
- Anadromous Fish Conservation Act
- Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
- Authorized Representative [Wildlife and Fisheries]
- Central, Western, and South Pacific Fisheries Development Act
- Charter Fishing
- Coastal Fishery Management Plan
- Coastal Fishery Resource
- Cohabitation
