Washington Administrative Code › Title 220 - Fish and Wildlife, Department of › FISH › Chapter 220-370 - Aquaculture › Section 220-370-050 - Definitions - Aquaculture disease control

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
				  apply:
(1) "Aquaculture products" are
				defined as private sector cultured aquatic products propagated, farmed, or
				cultivated on aquatic farms under the supervision and management of an aquatic
				farmer, or such products naturally set on lands under the active supervision
				and management of an aquatic farmer.
(2) "Disease" is defined as infection,
				contagious disease, parasite, or pest, occurring on or within the aquaculture
				product, or other shellfish or finfish, or on or within the water or substrate
				associated with the aquaculture product, shellfish, or finfish, or an
				occurrence of significant mortality suspected of being of an infectious or
				contagious nature.
(3) "Finfish" is
				defined as live fish, fish eggs, or fish gametes, but not to include aquaria
				species commonly sold in the pet store trade when raised in containers that do
				not discharge to the water[s] of the state, indigenous marine baitfish, or
				mosquito fish.
(4) "Shellfish" is
				defined as all aquatic invertebrates except insects.
(5) "Epizootic" is defined as the occurrence
				of a specific disease which can be detected in fifty percent of the mortality
				or moribund individual fish in an affected container or shellfish on an
				affected bed or within an affected population, and which results in an average
				daily mortality of at least one-half of one percent of the affected individual
				fish for five or more days in any thirty-day period.
(6) "Marine plant" is defined as nonvascular
				plants belonging to the phlya Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta, or Rhodophyta and
				vascular plants belonging to the family Zosteraceae when growing in marine or
				estuarine waters, and includes the seeds, spores, or any life-history phase of
				the plants.
(7) "Working day" is
				defined as any day other than Saturday, Sunday, or a Washington state
				holiday.
(8) "Department" is
				defined as the department of fish and wildlife.
(9) "Quarantine" is defined as isolation of
				the organism in a department approved facility.
(10) "Pest" is defined as parasite,
				parasitoid, predator, or fouling agent.
(11) "Established species" is defined as a
				species that has been propagated through aquaculture for at least ten years in
				Washington, or a species naturally reproducing within Washington.
(12) "West coast commerce region" is defined
				as the states of Alaska, California, Oregon, and Washington and the province of
				British Columbia.
(13) "Kelp" is
				defined as any species of brown algae of the order Laminariales.
(14) "Class A shellfish disease" is defined
				as an infectious disease which can cause significant mortality or loss of
				condition or quality in affected shellfish.
(15) "Class B shellfish disease" is defined
				as an infectious disease which is not known to cause significant mortality or
				loss of condition or quality in affected shellfish.
(16) "Market ready shellfish" are defined as
				aquatic invertebrate species which are intended for immediate human consumption
				and will not be placed into or come in contact with state waters.
(17) "Authorized finfish inspector" shall be
				defined as the individual who conducts or supervises testing in an authorized
				laboratory and attests to the results obtained. This individual signs/cosigns
				inspection and diagnostic reports and health certificates. The director shall
				maintain and provide upon request a roster of authorized finfish inspectors. An
				authorized finfish inspector shall be currently recognized by one of the
				following entities: The American Fisheries Society, Fish Health Section (either
				as Fish Health Inspector or Fish Pathologist); United States Fish and Wildlife
				Service, Title 50 Inspector; Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Fish
				Health Official or Inspector; Supervising veterinarian in a laboratory
				accredited by the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians
				(AAVLD).
(18) "Laboratory
				inspection report" is defined as the written results of testing conducted by an
				authorized finfish inspector.
(19)
				"Lot of fish" shall be defined as a group of fish of the same species and age
				that originated from the same spawning stock and share a common water
				supply.
(20) "Regulated finfish
				pathogens" are defined as the following pathogens which, upon initial detection
				within Washington state, or detection from a site within Washington state that
				has been pathogen-free for three or more years, require notification within one
				working day to the fish health unit of the department, who will, in turn,
				notify the state veterinarian of the detection:
(a) Viruses:
(i) Infectious hematopoietic necrosis
				virus;
(ii) Infectious pancreatic
				necrosis virus;
(iii) Viral
				hemorrhagic septicemia virus;
(iv)
				Oncorhynchus masou virus; and
(v)
				Infectious salmon anemia virus.