Chapter 3 North Carolina Species
Table 3-16 in Appendix 3 provides a list of federal and state laws that regulate and protect plants in the state.
3.1.2 Definitions North Carolina’s General Statutes also provide definitions covering fish, including freshwater, marine, and estuarine species, and wildlife resources, including game and migratory species. These include the following legislative definitions: (defined in NCGS 113, Article 12, §113-129, and for plants NCGS 106, Article 19B §106-202.12). All NCGS can be found online at General Statute Chapters - North Carolina General Assembly .
• “ Wildlife [is] all wild animals, wild birds, all fish found in inland fishing waters, and inland game fish”.
• “ Wild Animal means any native or once-native nongame amphibian, bird, crustacean, fish, mammal, mollusk, or reptile not otherwise legally classified by statute or regulation such as game and fur bearing animals, except those inhabiting and depending upon coastal fishing waters, marine and estuarine resources, marine mammals found in coastal fishing waters, sea turtles found in coastal fishing waters, and those declared to be pests under the Structural Pest Control Act of North Carolina of 1955 or the North Carolina Pesticide Law of 1971.”. • “ Wildlife Resources [are] all wild birds; all wild mammals other than marine mammals found in coastal fishing waters; all fish found in inland fishing waters, including migratory saltwater fish; all inland game fish; all uncultivated or undomesticated plant and animal life inhabiting or depending upon inland fishing waters; waterfowl food plants wherever found, except that to the extent such plants in coastal fishing waters affect the conservation of marine and estuarine resources the Department (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) is given concurrent jurisdiction as to such plants; all undomesticated terrestrial creatures; and the entire ecology supporting such birds, mammals, fish, plant and animal life, and creatures.”. • “ Marine and Estuarine Resources [are] all fish, except inland game fish, found in the Atlantic Ocean and in coastal fishing waters; all fisheries based upon such fish; all uncultivated or undomesticated plant and animal life, other than wildlife resources, inhabiting or dependent upon coastal fishing waters; and the entire ecology supporting such fish, fisheries, and plant and animal life.” • “ Nongame animals are all wild animals except game and fur-bearing animals; all wild birds except game birds; and all fish found in inland fishing waters other than inland game fish. Wildlife that are ‘game’ species are regulated and subject to special license requirements for harvesting them (e.g., fishing, hunting, trapping).”
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