§ 11-0103. Definitions.\n As used in the Fish and Wildlife Law:\n 1. a. "Fish" means all varieties of the super-class Pisces.\n b. "Food fish" means all species of edible fish and squid\n(cephalopoda).\n c. "Migratory fish of the sea" means both catadromous and anadromous\nspecies of fish which live a part of their life span in salt water\nstreams and oceans.\n d. "Fish protected by law" means fish protected, by law or by\nregulations of the department, by restrictions on open seasons or on\nsize of fish that may be taken.\n e. Unless otherwise indicated, "Trout" includes brook trout, brown\ntrout, red-throat trout, rainbow trout and splake. "Trout", "landlocked\nsalmon", "black bass", "pickerel", "pike", and "walleye" mean\nrespectively, the fish or groups of fish identified by those names, with\nor without one or more other common names of fish belonging to the\ngroup. "Pacific salmon" means coho salmon, chinook salmon and pink\nsalmon.\n * f. "Speargun" and "under-water gun" means any speargun that stores\npotential energy provided from the spearfisher's muscles only and is\nused while submerged under the water. Such gun may only release that\namount of energy that the diver has provided to it from such diver's own\nmuscles. Common temporary energy storing devices for spearguns shall\ninclude, but not be limited to: rubber bands, springs, and sealed air\nchambers.\n * NB Repealed June 1, 2026\n 2. "Game" is classified as (a) game birds; (b) big game; (c) small\ngame.\n a. "Game birds" are classified as (1) migratory game birds and (2)\nupland game birds.\n (1) "Migratory game birds" means the Anatidae or waterfowl, commonly\nknown as geese, brant, swans and river and sea ducks; the Rallidae,\ncommonly known as rails, American coots, mud hens and gallinules; the\nLimicolae or shorebirds, commonly known as woodcock, snipe, plover,\nsurfbirds, sandpipers, tattlers and curlews; the Corvidae, commonly\nknown as jays, crows and magpies.\n (2) "Upland game birds" (Gallinae) means wild turkeys, grouse,\npheasant, Hungarian or European gray-legged partridge and quail. Grouse\nmeans ruffed grouse and every member of the grouse family. Pheasant\nmeans the ring-necked, dark-necked and mutant pheasants and all species\nand subspecies of the genus Phasianus representing the true or game\npheasants.\n b. "Big game" means deer, bear, moose, elk, except captive bred and\nraised North American elk (Cervus elaphus), caribou and antelope.\n c. "Small game" means black, gray and fox squirrels, European hares,\nvarying hares, cottontail rabbits, native frogs, native salamanders,\nnative turtles, native lizards, native snakes, coyotes, red fox (Vulpes\nvulpes) and gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) except captive bred red\nfox or gray fox, raccoon, opossum, or weasel, skunk, bobcat, lynx,\nmuskrat, mink, except mink born in captivity, fisher, otter, beaver,\nsable and marten but does not include coydogs.\n 3. "Wild game" means all game, except (a) domestic game bird and\ndomestic game animal as defined in subdivision 4; (b) carcasses of\nforeign game as defined in section 11-1717, imported from outside the\nUnited States; (c) game propagated or kept alive in captivity as\nprovided in section 11-1907 of this article; (d) game imported alive\npursuant to license of the department, or artificially propagated, until\nsuch game is liberated; and (e) game so imported or propagated when\nliberated for the purpose of a field trial and taken during the field\ntrial for which it was liberated.\n 4. a. "Domestic game bird" means ducks, geese, brant, swans,\npheasants, quail, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, Chukar partridge and\nHungarian or European gray-legged partridge, propagated under a domestic\ngame bird breeder's license pursuant to section 11-1901 or a shooting\npreserve license pursuant to section 11-1903, or propagated on a\npreserve or island outside the state under a law similar in principle to\ntitle 19 of this article.\n b. "Dome
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