TITLE 17: CONSERVATION
CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
SUBCHAPTER b: FISH AND WILDLIFE
PART 890 FISH REMOVAL WITH CHEMICALS
SECTION 890.10 DEFINITIONS


 

Section 890.10  Definitions

 

a)         LICENSED AQUATIC APPLICATOR − a person who is duly licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to apply approved aquatic herbicides and pesticides to the waters of the State of Illinois.

 

b)         FISH TOXICANT − any of several U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved restricted use pesticides which are cleared for use in the removal of fish from the waters of the State of Illinois.

 

c)         DISTRICT FISHERIES BIOLOGIST − an employee of the Department of Natural Resources assigned to provide fisheries management services to a prescribed set of Illinois counties.

 

d)         RESTRICTED USE PESTICIDE − the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency term for a pesticide which, due to its toxicity, can only be purchased and/or applied by a licensed pesticide applicator.

 

e)         PERSON − "person" includes the plural "persons", females as well as males, and shall extend and be applied to clubs, associations, corporations, firms, and partnerships, as well as individuals.

 

f)         ARTIFICIAL IMPOUNDMENT − any dug or dammed body of standing water built by man, including borrow, gravel or quarry pits.

 

g)         LICENSED AQUACULTURIST − a person who is duly licensed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to breed, hatch, propagate or raise aquatic life.