Section NR 25.02 - DefinitionsExcept 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.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 25.02
Cr. Register, September, 1976, No. 249, eff. 10-1-76; r. and recr. Register, October, 1979, No. 286, eff. 11-1-79; renum. (6) to (18) to be (7) to (19), (19) to (21) to be (22) to (24), (22) to be (21), cr. (6) and (20), Register, April, 1983, No. 328, eff. 5-1-83; renum. (8) to (14) to be (10) to (16), (15) to be (18), (16) to (18) to be (20) to (22), (19) to (24) to be (24) to (29), cr. (8), (9), (17), (19) and (23), Register, April, 1983, No. 328, eff. 5-1-83; renum. (16) to (29) to be (17) to (30), cr. (16), Register, June, 1985, No. 354, eff. 7-1-85; am. (20), Register, August, 1985, No. 356, eff. 9-1-85; renum. (16) to (30) to be (15) to (31) and cr. (16), Register, February, 1986, No. 362, eff. 3-1-86; emerg. cr. (32), eff. 4-22-86; emerg. cr. (23f), (23l), (23r), (23x), (27f), (27l), (27r), and (27k), eff. 5-5-86; cr. (12m), (12t), (16m), (23m) and (32), Register, October, 1986, No. 370, eff. 11-1-86; cr. (28m), Register, December, 1986, No. 372, eff. 1-1-87; cr. (7g), (7n), (23g), (33) to (35), am. (14), (21) and (25), Register, June, 1989, No. 402, eff. 7-1-89; emerg. r. (12m) and (28m), eff. 4-1-91; r. (12m) and (28m), Register, August, 1991, No. 428, eff. 9-1-91; am. (21), Register, April, 1997, No. 496, eff. 5-1-97; am. (25), Register, December, 1998, No. 516, eff. 1-1-99; am. (25), Register, December, 2000, No. 540, eff. 1-1-01; correction in (19) made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 7, Stats., Register July 2006 No. 607; reprinted to correct error in (35) Register February 2007 No. 614; correction in (16) made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 7, Stats., Register February 2007 No. 614; CR 08-060: am. Register June 2009 No. 642, eff. 7-1-09; correction in (44) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 7, Stats., Register June 2009 No. 642; CR 09-016: am. (39) Register January 2010 No. 649, eff. 2-1-10; CR 13-001: am. (8), (9), (46) Register August 2013 No. 692, eff. 9-1-13.Amended by, CR 15-074: cr. (18m), r. (50) Register May 2016 No. 725, eff.6/1/2016Amended by, CR 16-061: cr. (3m) Register September 2017 No. 741, eff. 10/1/2017Amended by, CR 19-091: am. (39) Register March 2020 No. 771, eff. 4/1/2020Amended by, CR 19-134: cr. (9m), am. (66) Register April 2020 No. 772, eff. 5-1-20; correction in (9m) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register April 2020 No. 772, eff. 5/1/2020Amended by, EmR1923: emerg. cr. (2m), (69m), eff. 12-30-19; CR 19-103: cr. (2m), (69m) Register July 2020 No. 775, eff. 8/1/2020Amended by, CR 23-008: renum. (1), (2), (2m), (3m), (4), (5), (8) to (10) to be NR 25.027 (1) to (10), am. (11), renum. (13), (14), (17) to (22), (27), (29), (30), (32), (33), (35), (37), (38), (40) to (49), (54), (55), (57), (59) to (61), (63) to (72) to be NR 25.027 (1) to (24), (26) to (56) Register October 2023 No. 814, eff. 11/1/2023See the table of Appellate Court Citations for Wisconsin appellate cases citing s. NR 25.02.