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Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Kerala Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Act, 2010. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Kerala. (3) It shall come into force at once. 2.. Definitions— In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— 33/3576/2010/DTP. 34 (a) 'Appellate authority' means the Director of Fisheries; (b) 'Aquaculture' means growing any aquatic animals or plants by collecting and conserving them naturally or artificially in restricted circumstances in any private or public water body or in any aquatic environment and includes cage culture, pen culture, running water fish culture, ornamental fish farming, fish farming in reservoirs; (c) 'aquaculture area' means an area notified under sub-section (1) of section 4; (d) 'authorised officer' means in respect of the matter to which reference is made in the provisions of this Act in which the expression occurs means an officer of the Fisheries Department authorised by the Government by notification in the Gazette; (e) 'filtration' means the traditional fish farming by naturally or artificially trapping the fish seed that flow along with tide from sea or back waters or from other water body into large group of paddy fields or .shallow • water bodies and leaving them to grow and thereafter catching the grown-up fish; (t) 'fisherman' means any person engaged mainly in inland fishing activity for his livelihood and includes the wife of fisherman engaged in fish selling and the widow of a fisherman; (g) 'fish farmer' means the person doing farming of different varieties of aquatic animals and plants for his livelihood or to enable him to earn 1 economic gain at any stage of their life cycle; (h) 'fishing vessel' means any boat or vessel engaged in fishing or fish farming activities and includes vessel, country boat, canoe or any other device for travelling in water for fishing or fish farming activities; (i) 'fish' includes shell fish at any stage of their life cycle and all aquatic plants; ' (j) 'fishing operation' means catching fish by using fishing vessel, fixed machine, free net or otherwise and includes stocking of shell fish, conchs and any type of filtration and culturing of them; 35 (k) 'fisheries' means any activity or occupation related with the conservation development, propagation, protection, exploitation, utilization of fish and fish products; (1) 'fish harvest' means catching of fish from the aquaculture area by any manner; (m) 'protected fish sanctuary' means any area notified as protected fish sanctuary under section 28 of this Act; (n) 'fish seed' means infanthood of any fish in any form at its life cycle; (o) 'fixed machine' means any Chinese net or dip net or any othei net or cage or fishing fence or anchor or tray or any other device fixed in the soil or immovably installed in any other way in land or in water for fishing; (p) 'free net' means any net, cage, cramp iron hook or other device other than a fixed machine used for fishing; (q) 'hatchery' means the centre of producing fish seed; (r) 'inland fishery' means any fishery of fresh water fish or brackish water fish or other fresh water-brackish water, cold water, estuary water, ornamental fishery, backwater resources having fishery related value and commonly conducted in any public or private water body; (s) 'inland water body' means any private or public water body to be a transformable area utilising or utilisable for any fishery related activity within the State; (t) local self Government institution' means a panchayat constituted under section 4 of the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (13 of 1994) or a Municipality constituted under section 4 of the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994); (u) 'person' includes a company or firm or institution or co-operative society or any body of individuals; (v) prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (w) private water body' means any water body or a transformable area which is the exclusive property of any person or persons or any other person have for the time being an exclusive right of fishery whether as an owner or lessee or in any other capacity; 36 (x) 'public water body' means any water body or transformable area including estuaries or backwaters or rivers or lakes, ponds or tanks or canals including irrigation canals or reservoirs or check dams or streams vested with the Government or Local Self Government Institutions under section 218 of the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 or under section 208 (a) of the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 or owned by Boards or any other Government-Quasi Government Institutions or organisations; (y) 'transformable area' means any land or swamp that can be developed or converted into a public or private water body by transformation or renovation; (z) 'State' means the State of Kerala. CHAPTER II DEVELOPMENT, PROPAGATION, CONSERVATION, MANAGEMENT