Section 188-3-01 - DefinitionsUnless the context indicates otherwise in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:
A. "Department" means the Maine Department of Marine Resources, State House Station #21, Augusta, Maine 04333;B. "Fishery Conservation Zone" means that zone established by Section 101 of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, P.L. 94-265, 16 U.S.C. Sec. 1811;C. "internal waters of Maine" means all waters within the boundaries of the state except those seaward of the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured;D. "fish processing" means the application of preservative means and/or methods to the flesh of fish to maintain quality and prevent deterioration, and includes, but is not limited to, preparation, supply, storage, refrigeration, or transportation of unprocessed fish, "fish processing" does not include the traditional transportation of herring by Canadian herring carriers from Maine's internal waters to Canada;E. "adequate capacity" means that U.S. fish processors operating fish processing facilities in Maine have the physical plant capacity and the present determination to use that processing capacity to process all of the United States harvested fish from the fishery concerned that are landed in Maine;F. "IWP permit" means a permit authorized by the Governor under section 3.04 for foreign fishing vessels to engage in fish processing in the internal waters of this state pursuant to Section 306, Subsection C of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1856 ).13-188 C.M.R. ch. 3, § 01