When used in this chapter:

1. (1) Hybrid means the progeny resulting from cross-breeding a striped bass with a white bass or their hybrids approved by the department.
2. (2) Fingerling means a postlarval fish less than one year old which has all the characteristics of the adult fish.
3. (3) Aquaculturist means an individual, a corporation, a cooperative, a partnership, a company, or an entity that engages in aquaculture.
4. (4) Trafficking means the processing, buying, selling, bartering, trading, exchanging, or offering or exposing for sale, barter, trade, or exchange, or otherwise acquiring or disposing of a fish.
5. (5) Department means the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources or its authorized agent.
6. (6) Product means the meat, organs, flesh, skin, fry, eggs, gametes, fingerlings, or skeleton of a hybrid which is fresh, frozen, dried, smoked, cured, or cooked that is whole or mutilated or parts of them.
7. (7) Aquaculture means the controlled cultivation of aquatic species in confinement, including breeding, spawning, rearing, and growing out either alone or in combination and trafficking in the fish.
8. (8) Retailer means a person that sells directly to the ultimate consumer, not for resale.
9. (9) Wholesaler means a person that sells products to licensed retailers, jobbers, dealers, or other wholesalers for resale but does not sell to users or consumers.
10. (10) Processor means a person that engages in cutting, dressing, mutilating, filleting, freezing, or packaging of products other than when prepared and sold directly to the ultimate consumer.
11. (11) Distributor means a person including a wholesaler, retailer, or processor who ships, transports, or distributes products for market.
12. (12) Ultimate consumer means a person who purchases or receives an aquaculture product for his consumption and not for resale.
13. (13) Santee-Cooper strain means the genetic strain of striped bass indigenous to the Santee-Cooper Lake System of South Carolina.
14. (14) Business establishment means a location where the trafficking of an approved aquaculture product takes place.