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§13-60.4-3
<br />"Marine reserve" means an area where any and all
<br />extraction of reef -related marine life, either alive
<br />or dead, or any portion of the reef structure,
<br />including coral, rocks, plants, algae, sand, shells,
<br />or any feature of the natural reef, shall be
<br />prohibited, except as allowed in this chapter.
<br />"Multi -panel lay net" means a lay net consisting
<br />of two or more layers of netting, usually of different
<br />mesh size. This gear is also known as a trammel net.
<br />"Natural fibers" means fibers derived wholly from
<br />plant materials including, olona, linen, cotton, hemp,
<br />and sisal.
<br />"SCUBA gear" means any equipment adapted,
<br />designed, or commonly used to enable a diver to
<br />breathe while underwater, including but not limited to
<br />SCUBA regulators, high pressure cylinders,
<br />rebreathers, SNUBA, and hookah rigs.
<br />"SCUBA spearfishing" means to take or to attempt
<br />to take aquatic life through the combined use of a
<br />spear and SCUBA gear.
<br />"Set" when used as a noun with respect to the use
<br />of lay nets, means a sequential act beginning from
<br />when the lay net is fully deployed in the water and
<br />ending on the next complete removal of the lay net
<br />from the water.
<br />"Spear" means any device or implement which is
<br />designed or used for impaling marine life. Spears may
<br />include but are not limited to spear gun shafts,
<br />arbaletes, arrows, bolts, Hawaiian slings, tridents,
<br />or three -prong spears. A dive knife is not considered
<br />to be a spear.
<br />"Speared" means pierced, impaled, penetrated,
<br />stuck, or run through by a sharp, pointed implement.
<br />"Take" means to fish for, catch, or harvest, or
<br />to attempt to fish for, catch, or harvest, aquatic
<br />life. The use of any gear, equipment, tool, or any
<br />means to fish for, catch, capture, or harvest, or to
<br />attempt to fish for, catch, capture, or harvest,
<br />aquatic life by any person who is in the water, or in
<br />a vessel on the water, or in the shoreline area where
<br />aquatic life can be fished for, caught, or harvested,
<br />shall be construed as taking.
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