NAC503.500. Definitions.

As used in NAC 503.500 to 503.575, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires:

     1. “Aquatic bait” means live, unprotected amphibians (such as salamanders, waterdogs and frogs), crustaceans (such as crayfish) and mollusks (such as clams and snails).

     2. “Aquatic life” means live amphibians, crustaceans, mollusks, fish and all other animals which grow in, live in or frequent water.

     3. “Artificial lures” means any device with a hook or hooks attached which is made partly or entirely of rubber, wood, metal, glass, plastic or feathers.

     4. “Live bait fish” means live, unprotected species of freshwater fish.

     5. “Minimum size” means the minimum total length a fish must measure to be possessed legally.

     6. “Region” means one of the three administrative regions established by the Department.

     7. “Single barbless hook” means a fish hook having one point which is manufactured without barbs or on which the barbs have been closed completely or filed off. The term does not include a fish hook which shares a common shank with one or more other fish hooks, regardless of whether the barbs have been closed completely or filed off.

     8. “Total length” means the length of a fish measured from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail fin.

     [Bd. of Fish & Game Comm’rs, No. 7 § 30.3, eff. 1-1-75; A 1-1-78]—(NAC A by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs, 12-15-81; 12-1-82; 4-27-84, eff. 5-25-84; 12-18-89; 11-23-94)