The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
  (1) Aquaculture (or fish farming)--The business of producing and selling cultured aquatic species.
  (2) Aquaculturist--A person authorized by law to engage in aquaculture, fish farming or mariculture.
  (3) Aquaculture facility (or fish farm)--The property including private ponds from which fish, shellfish, or aquatic plants are produced, propagated, transported, or sold.
  (4) Broodstock--An aquatic species taken from the public waters of this state for the purpose of aquaculture or mariculture.
  (5) Collection--Any boating, fishing, or aquatic product transportation activity involved in the take or attempted take of broodstock.
  (6) Cultured species--Aquatic species raised under conditions where at least a portion of their life cycle is controlled by an aquaculturist.
  (7) Department--The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
  (8) Designated agent--A person designated by an aquaculturist and approved by permit to act on behalf of that aquaculturist in collection of broodstock.
  (9) Director--The executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department or his designee.
  (10) Mariculture--Cultivated oyster mariculture as defined by Parks and Wildlife Code, Chapter 75.
  (11) Progeny--Offspring of aquatic species, including eggs, fry, fingerlings, oyster larvae, seed, and spat.
  (12) Public waters--Bays, estuaries, and water of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of the state, and the rivers, streams, creeks, bayous, reservoirs, lakes, and portions of those waters where public access is available without discrimination.
  (13) Recreational Fishing--The act of using legal means or methods to take or to attempt to take aquatic life for noncommercial purposes from the public waters of this state.

Source Note: The provisions of this §57.391 adopted to be effective October 3, 1996, 21 TexReg 9170; amended to be effective June 12, 2013, 38 TexReg 3644; amended to be effective August 24, 2020, 45 TexReg 5915