Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 59 > Chapter 37 - Schools for Eleemosynary Institutions

• Boat: means a vessel. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources unless otherwise stated. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Fish: means finfish, shellfish including mollusks, crustaceans, horseshoe crabs, whelks (conchs), turtles, and terrapin or products thereof. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Fishing: means all activity and effort involved in taking or attempting to take fish. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Gill net: means a net which is designed to hang vertically and capture fish by entanglement usually of the head, gill covers, or preopercles, and does not include gill net for taking shad unless specified. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Herring: means all life stages of the river herrings being blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) and alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus). See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Person: means an individual, a partnership, a firm, a corporation, an association, or other legal entity. See South Carolina Code 50-21-10
• Saltwater gamefish: means a species of saltwater fish designated as a saltwater gamefish in this title. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Shad: means American or white shad (Alosa sapidissima) and hickory or skip-jack shad (Alosa mediocris). See South Carolina Code 50-5-15
• Take: means to harass intentionally, hunt, capture, gather, harvest, remove, catch, wound, or kill or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, gather, harvest, remove, catch, wound, or kill. See South Carolina Code 50-5-15