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Estuary

Means any part of a river whose level is periodically or intermittently affected by coastal tides, or any lake or other partially enclosed body of water that is periodically or intermittently open to the sea.

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Fish Habitat

The spawning grounds and nursery, food supply, and migration areas upon which fish rely to live.

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Fish Plant

The use of land, buildings or structures where freshwater or saltwater fish, mollusks or crustaceans are processed in any one or more of the following ways; cleaned, cooked, preserved, packaged, canned, frozen, stored (holding tanks for live lobster) and made available to the wholesale and retail markets. The use of land, building, or structure where […]

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Fish Reduction Plant

A building or part of a building where fish offal, whole or parts of fish or any combination thereof is rendered into fish meal, fertilizer, slurry or other by-product but shall not include a fish plant.

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Fisheries Management

The management of fish habitat and fish population for the purpose of sustaining and improving the quality and quantity of fish.

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Fishing

Means the use of bait, lures or other devices for the purpose of catching fish, for recreational or commercial purposes.

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Five Hundred Year Floodplain

That area covered by floodwater as a result of the flood having a one-fifth-of-one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.

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Flood Elevation, Base

The highest elevation, expressed in feet above sea level, of the level of flood waters occurring in the regulatory base flood.

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Flood Fringe

That portion of the Flood Risk Area between the Floodway and the outer boundary of the Flood Risk Area.

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Flood Insurance Rate Map

The official map of the Town of XXX on which the Federal Insurance Administration has delineated the areas of special flood hazards and risk premium zones applicable to the town, as well as base flood elevations at selected locations.

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