Oceanic waters definition

Oceanic waters means waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, or Straits of Florida, excluding estuaries.
Oceanic waters means all other marine waters outside of the twenty fathom depth contour or greater than 1,000 feet off-shore from the mean high water line, whichever is the greater distance from the shoreline.

Related to Oceanic waters

  • Navigable waters ’ means the waters of the United States, including the territorial sea;

  • Public waters means waters to which the general public has a right to access.

  • Coastal waters means those waters of Long Island Sound and its harbors, embayments, tidal rivers, streams and creeks which contain a salinity concentration of at least five hundred parts per million under low flow conditions.

  • Stormwater management planning area means the geographic area for which a stormwater management planning agency is authorized to prepare stormwater management plans, or a specific portion of that area identified in a stormwater management plan prepared by that agency.

  • Waters or “waters of the state” means any and all water, public or private, on or beneath the surface of the ground, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon Tennessee or any portion thereof except those bodies of water confined to and retained within the limits of private property in single ownership which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters.