Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 635 - DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE › Division 56 - IMPORTATION, POSSESSION, CONFINEMENT, TRANSPORTATION AND SALE OF NONNATIVE WILDLIFE › Section 635-056-0010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
For the purposes of these rules, the definitions in ORS
				496.004 and OAR
				635-045-0002 apply. In addition,
				the following definitions apply:
(1)
			 "Aquaria" means any tanks, pools, ponds, bowls or other containers intended for
			 and capable of holding or maintaining live fish and from which there is no
			 outfall to any waters of this state.
(2) "Aquaria Fish" means any fish, shellfish
			 or marine invertebrates legally acquired and sold in the pet store trade,
			 except game fish, state or federally protected threatened and endangered
			 species and those species listed as Prohibited or Controlled.
(3) "Commercial Fur Farm" means any operation
			 which raises captive fox (Vulpes vulpes or Urocyon cinereoargenteus) or mink
			 (Mustela vison) for profit and possesses 10 or more animals.
(4) "Controlled Species" means wildlife that
			 the commission has placed on the Controlled list.
(5) "Domestic" means those animals which are
			 identified in OAR 635-056-0020 (Domestic or
			 Otherwise Exempt Animals).
(6)
			 Except where used in reference to ORS chapter 609, "Exotic" means a wildlife
			 species not native to Oregon; foreign or introduced.
(7) "Hold" means any form of possession or
			 control of an animal, gamete, or hybrid thereof.
(8) "Hybrid" means any animal, gamete or egg
			 that is produced by crossing at least one wild individual of a species with any
			 other species or subspecies.
(9)
			 "Import/importation" means to bring or cause live wildlife to be transported
			 into Oregon by any means.
(10)
			 "Introduced" means a species, subspecies or populations which occur in Oregon
			 because of human action or intervention, rather than natural (nonhuman)
			 colonization or immigration.
(11)
			 "Live Foodfish" means any fish or marine invertebrate legally acquired and held
			 in aquaria or packaged live and sold in the wholesale or retail trade for human
			 consumption, except game fish, state or federally protected threatened and
			 endangered species and those species listed as Prohibited or
			 Controlled.
(12) "Marine
			 invertebrate" means any marine invertebrate species commonly sold in the
			 wholesale or retail trade for human consumption, or commonly found in the
			 ornamental aquarium trade.
(13)
			 "Native" means species, subspecies or populations which occur currently or
			 historically in Oregon through natural (i.e. nonhuman) colonization or
			 immigration, rather than by human action or intervention.
(14) "Nonnative" means a wildlife species not
			 native to Oregon; foreign or introduced.
(15) "Noncontrolled Species" means wildlife
			 that the commission has placed on the Noncontrolled list.
(16) "Prohibited Species" means wildlife that
			 the commission has placed on the Prohibited list.
(17) "Species" means a unit of classification
			 of animals which are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile
			 offspring.
(18) "Subspecies" means
			 a unit of classification of animals within a species which show differences in
			 size, color or form as a result of being partially or completely reproductively
			 isolated from other populations of the species.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
				  496.012,
				  496.138,
				  496.146,
				  497.298,
				  497.308,
				  497.312,
				  497.318,
				  498.022,
				  498.029,
				  498.052,
				  498.222 &
				  498.242
Stats. Implemented: ORS
				  496.012,
				  496.138,
				  496.146,
				  497.298,
				  497.308,
				  497.312,
				  497.318,
				  498.022,
				  498.029,
				  498.052,
				  498.222 &
				  498.242