Illinois Administrative Code › Title 17 - CONSERVATION › Part 830 - COMMERCIAL FISHING AND MUSSELING IN CERTAIN WATERS OF THE STATE › Section 830.5 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) A relic (dead)
			 mussel shell is defined as one which apparently died of natural causes within
			 the water and contains no meat or soft parts; it readily exhibits noticeable
			 sediment, vegetation, algal or mineral stains, discolorations, soiling,
			 weathering or other visual evidence on its interior surface which clearly and
			 unambiguously shows the mussel shell has not been cooked-out or freshly
			 cleaned.
b) A legal size mussel for
			 a particular species is defined as a mussel size as set out in Section
			 830.70 which
			 will not pass through a minimum harvest size circle cutout in a metal
			 plate.
c) Basket dredge - mussel
			 harvesting device consisting of a heavy metal box or square which collects the
			 shells in a net or wire cage, weighs over 70 pounds, and is not operated by
			 hand as described in subsection (e).
d) Hand dredge (hand rake, hand powered rake)
			 - mussel harvesting device weighing less than 70 pounds consisting of a metal
			 frame having coarse teeth on the bottom to which a bag constructed of wire mesh
			 or netting material is attached and fastened by a line to a boom attached to
			 the bow of the boat and held on the bottom by means of a long handle.
e) Hand fork - mussel harvesting device
			 similar in appearance to a common cornfork and utilized while wading.
f) Mechanical devices - refers to dredges and
			 suction devices operated by motorized (internal combustion or electrical) power
			 used in the actual harvest of mussels and does not refer to the manner in which
			 the mussel harvest device is raised into the boat or the device used in
			 propelling the boat.
g) Commercial
			 fishing - includes the commercial harvest of both legal fish and legal
			 crayfish.
h) Bar mesh measure - all
			 net mesh measurements shall be determined by bar measure from the outside of
			 one knot to the inside of the adjoining knot on the same thread or
			 strand.
i) Blue Book - Suggested
			 Procedures for the Detection and Identification of Certain Finfish and
			 Shellfish Pathogens, American Fisheries Society, Fish Health Section, 5410
			 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 (2010 Edition), with no later
			 amendments or editions included.
j)
			 Daily fee fishing area - any privately owned water area that is controlled,
			 operated or managed for fishing and utilized by persons who pay a daily fee,
			 either directly or indirectly; water bodies that are controlled, operated or
			 managed as private club lakes, organizational lakes or lake developments are
			 not eligible to receive a daily fee fishing area license.
k) Commercial fishermen - any individual who
			 uses any of the commercial fishing devices, as defined by Section 15-15 of the
			 Fish and Aquatic Life Code (Code) [515 ILCS 5 15-15], for the taking of any
			 aquatic life, except mussels, protected by the terms of the Code.
l) Fish Health Inspection Report or FHIR -
			 official document reporting health status of inspected fish issued by a
			 trained, qualified fish health professional in accordance with Blue Book or OIE
			 standards (see 17 Ill. Adm. Code
			 875.40
			 ).
m) OIE - the World Organization
			 for Animal Health, 12, rue de Prony 75017 Paris, France or at
http://www.oie.int
.
n) Lot - a population of fish as defined in
			 the Blue Book.
o) Live fish - fish
			 will be considered live if one of the following is met:
1) they are being held in any type of
			 container with water; or
2) they
			 are being held in any solution of salt, electrolyte, other substance, or
			 combinations of these substances, used to promote health or longevity;
			 or
3) they are being maintained by
			 addition of oxygen, or compressed or supplied air, for purposes of preserving
			 health during captivity.