Section 2. Definitions

(k) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (c) "fishing" means catching, taking, killing, attracting or pursuing fish by any method and includes the processing, preserving, transferring, receiving and transporting of fish; (l) "processing", in relation to fishing includes cleaning, beheading, filleting, shelling, peeling, icing, freezing, canning, salting, smoking, cooking, pickling, drying and otherwise preparing or preserving fish by any other method; (b) "fish" means any aquatic animal, whether piscine or not, and includes shell fish, crustacean, molluscs, turtle (chelonia), aquatic mammal (the young, fry, eggs and spawn thereof), holothurians, coelenterates, sea weed, coral (porifera) and any other aquatic life; (m) "specified ports" means such ports as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify for the purposes of this Act; (j) "permit" means a permit granted or deemed to have been granted under section 5; (h) "master", in relation to a vessel, means the person for the time being having command or charge of the vessel; (e) "Indian vesse"l means-- (I) a vessel owned by Government or by a corporation established by a Central Act or a Provincial or State Act, or (II) a vessel-- (o) "vessel" includes any ship, boat, sailing vessel or other description of vessel. (f) "licence" means a licence granted under section 4; (i) "owner", in relation to a vessel, includes any association of persons, whether incorporated or not, by whom the vessel is owned or chartered; (a) "exclusive economic zone of India" means the exclusive economic zone of India in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 (80 of 1976). (n) "territorial waters of India" means the territorial waters of India in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Territorial Waters Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 (80 of 1976); (g) "maritime zones of India" means the territorial waters of India or the exclusive economic zone of India; (ii) which is registered under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958), or under any other Central Act or any Provincial or State Act. Explanation.--For the purposes of this clause, "registered co-operative society" means a society registered or deemed to be registered under the Co-operative Societies Act, 1912 (2 of 1912), or any other law relating to co-operative societies for the time being in force in any State; (d) "foreign vessel" means any vessel other than an Indian vessel; 2. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--