Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 1-99 - Fish, Game and Enforcement, Forestry and Recreation › Chapter NR 25 - Commercial fishing In Outlying Waters And Wholesale Fish Dealers › Subchapter I - General Provisions › Section NR 25.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
Except as otherwise specifically defined in the statutes,
					 the following terms, for the purposes of this chapter, are defined as
					 follows:
(3) "Chunked" means fish from
				  which the viscera, head and tail have been removed.
(6) "Commercial fish" is any species of game
				  or rough fish for which an open season has been provided in s.
				  NR
				  25.05.
(7)
				  "Commercial fisher" means a person required to obtain a license under s.
				  29.519 (1m),
				  Stats.
(11) "Condition of the fish"
				  or "description of the fish" means the form that fish are in, and includes but
				  is not limited to fresh round, fresh dressed, frozen dressed, fresh fillet,
				  frozen fillet, fresh chunked, frozen chunked, smoked dressed, smoked fillet,
				  smoked chunked, fresh snipped or frozen snipped.
(12) "Department" means the Wisconsin
				  department of natural resources.
(15) "Domestic lake trout" means a lake trout
				  taken from the waters of the state, but not from a fish farm registered with
				  the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
(16) "Dressed fish" means fish from which
				  only the viscera have been removed.
(23) "Fillet" means the slab side of fish
				  from which the viscera, head, tail and bones have been removed, except for the
				  pin bones, which may or may not have been removed.
(24) "Final consumer" means the last or
				  ultimate person who obtains a fish for its final use for eating or
				  otherwise.
(25) "Final consumption"
				  means the last or ultimate use of a fish by eating or otherwise.
(26) "Fish" means any processed or
				  unprocessed fish of those species which are found in the waters of the state as
				  defined in s. 281.01 (18),
				  Stats., including parts of fish, fish eggs or fish products.
(28) "Fisher" means any person engaged in
				  fishing.
(31) "Foreign lake trout"
				  means lake trout harvested outside of Wisconsin and imported into the
				  state.
(34) "Illegal fish" means
				  any fish taken, possessed or controlled in violation of this chapter or a
				  statute, including fish that have not been reported or for which a record has
				  not been created as required.
(36)
				  "Import" includes the transport of fish by a common carrier or out-of-state
				  fish dealer or producer into the state, or at the request of a licensed
				  wholesale fish dealer, but does not include fish being transported through the
				  state to a destination in another state.
(39) "License year" means that period from
				  January 1 through December 31.
(51)
				  "Pounds" means the avoirdupois weight in pounds of fish in the round with head,
				  gills and viscera intact, except with respect to chubs sorted for human
				  consumption, menominee and whitefish, where it means the avoirdupois weight in
				  pounds of dressed fish.
(52) "Purse
				  seine" means a net which consists of a wall or modified wall of net which is
				  used to encircle fish. The top of the net is fitted with floats while the
				  bottom is weighted. A line threaded through rings under the net allows fishers
				  to close the bottom of the net, thus trapping fish in the enclosure so
				  produced.
(53) "Record" has the
				  meaning given it in s.
				  29.503 (1)
				  (cm), Stats.
(56) "Snipped" means headless with viscera
				  partially removed.
(62) "Stretch
				  measure" means the extension measure of net mesh size whenever the size of mesh
				  of a net is specified. Stretch measure means the distance between the extreme
				  angles of any single mesh.
See the table of Appellate Court Citations for Wisconsin
						appellate cases citing s. NR 25.02.