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"Aquaculture" means the culture, harvesting or farming of food fish, shellfish, or other aquatic plants and animals. Commercial activities include the hatching, cultivating, planting, feeding, raising, harvesting, and processing of aquatic plants and animals and the maintenance and construction of necessary equipment, buildings and growing areas. Cultivation methods include but are not limited to fish pens, fish hatcheries, shellfish rafts, racks and long lines, seaweed floats and nets and the culture of clams and oysters on tidelands and subtidal areas. Non-commercial activities include activities related to subsistence, recreational and personal consumption, and research and restoration, provided that non-commercial aquaculture does not include construction or installation of structures on the beach or waterward of the ordinary high water mark. Aquaculture does not include the harvest of wild geoduck associated with the state and tribal co-managed wild stock geoduck fishery.

This definition applies only to "Shoreline" regulations in chapters 30.44 and 30.67 SCC. (Added by Amended Ord. 12-025, June 6, 2012, Eff date July 27, 2012; Amended by Ord. 13-098, Dec. 11, 2013, Eff date May 27, 2014; Amended by Amended Ord. 19-020, July 3, 2019, Eff date Oct. 14, 2019).