Fisheries Law and Legal Definition
By virtue of 46 USCS § 108, the term fisheries includes "processing, storing, transporting (except in foreign commerce), planting, cultivating, catching, taking, or harvesting fish, shellfish, marine animals, pearls, shells, or marine vegetation in the navigable waters of the United States or in the exclusive economic zone."
Legal Definition list
Related Legal Terms
- Authorized Representative [Wildlife and Fisheries]
- Central, Western, and South Pacific Fisheries Development Act
- Commercial Fishing [Wildlife and Fisheries]
- Dump Station [Wildlife and Fisheries]
- Electronic Fish Ticket [Wildlife and Fisheries]
- Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act
- Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986
- Marine Fisheries Commission
- National Marine Fisheries Service
- Pacific Marine Fisheries Compact
