Miss. Code Ann. § 79-21-53: Definitions.

As used in Sections 79-21-51 through 79-21-67, Mississippi Code of 1972:

(a) The term “member” shall include actual members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in associations organized with capital stock.

(b) The term “person” shall include individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations and associations.

(c) The term “association” means any association organized under the terms of Sections 79-21-51 through 79-21-67, Mississippi Code of 1972.

(d) The term “aquatic product” shall include all commercial products of aquatic life normally found in, or associated with, the salt waters of the State of Mississippi or the United States. It shall specifically include, but is not limited to, shellfish, domesticated fish, fish of all species, and their by-products, normally found in salt water.

(e) The term “commercial fishing” shall include all persons engaged totally or part-time in the business of catching freezing, marketing, processing, transporting, wholesaling or otherwise involved in the utilization of aquatic products from the salt waters of the State of Mississippi or the United States for commercial purposes.

(f) The term “domestic fish farming” shall include all persons engaged in the growing, managing, harvesting and/or marketing of domesticated fish or shellfish as a cultivated crop in privately owned or leased waters or submerged lands.

(g) The term “domesticated fish” means any fish or shellfish that are spawned and grown, managed, harvested and marketed on an annual, semiannual, biennial, or short-term basis in privately owned or leased waters or submerged lands.

(h) The term “producer” means any person engaged totally, or part-time, in the business of commercial fishing or domestic fish farming for the commercial purpose of providing aquatic products to consumers.