Aquatic life definition

Aquatic life means all fish, reptiles, amphibians, crayfish, mussels, mollusks, and crustaceans.
Aquatic life means any plant or animal life that uses surface water as primary habitat for at least a portion of its life cycle, but does not include avian or mammalian species.
Aquatic life means any type of species of mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod, invertebrate, coral, or other animal that inhabits the freshwater or marine environment and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof; or freshwater or marine plants, including seeds, roots, products, and other parts thereof.

Examples of Aquatic life in a sentence

  • Aquatic life can be adversely affected due to discharge of the wastewater on surface water bodies.

  • Aquatic life criteria or values may be modified on a site-specific basis to provide an additional level of protection.

  • Aquatic life is unlikely to be affected as it has already adapted to a wide range of turbid conditions arising from floods.

  • Aquatic life protection criteria shall assure water quality conditions capable of maintaining fish and other aquatic life.

  • Aquatic life standards: the concentration of toxic substances shall not result in chronic toxicity.


More Definitions of Aquatic life

Aquatic life means those plants and macroinvertebrates that are dependent upon an aquatic environment.
Aquatic life means all fish, reptiles, amphibians,
Aquatic life means all fish, reptiles, amphibians, crayfish, and mussels. (Section 1-5 of the Act)
Aquatic life means fish, invertebrates, amphibians and other flora and fauna which inhabit waters of the state at some stage of their life cycles. Aquatic life does not include human pathogens or insect pests, aquatic invasive species or other organisms which may be considered “undesirable” by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service within their appropriate jurisdictions.
Aquatic life means aquatic plants, aquatic algae, aquatic invertebrates, aquatic or semi-aquatic vertebrates, or other aquatic organisms or their habitats.
Aquatic life means any living component of the freshwater, estuarine or marine aquatic ecosystem, including phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthos, macrophytes and fish.
Aquatic life means native populations of fish and other aquatic life.