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d. Fishery. All activities relating to the act or business of gathering, taking,culturing, preserving, and marketing of fish and other aquatic products.e. Illegal Fishing Method. Refers to fishing with the use of gears that causedamage to ecological processes or habitats or cause a needless depletion of fishstocks directly or indirectly. It includes fishing with the use of dynamite, otherexplosives or chemical compound that contains combustible elements that uponignition by friction, concussion, percussion or detonation, of all parts of thecompound will kill, stupefy, disable, or render unconscious any fish or aquaticorganism. It also refers to the use of any other device, which causes anexplosion that is capable of producing the said harmful effects. It also includeelectro-fishing method.f. Municipal Waters. Include streams, lakes, subterranean and tidal water withinthe territorial jurisdiction of a municipality that are not the subject of privateownership and not included within national parks, public forests, timberland,forest reserves or fishery reserves.g. Optimum Sustainable Yield (OSY). Level of fishing effort that produce thehighest or most profitable catch levels which can be sustained indefinitelyconsidering the social, cultural and political factors that are associated with theutilization of fishery resources.h. Philippine Waters. All bodies of water within the Philippine territory such aslakes, rivers, creeks, brooks, ponds, swamps, lagoons, gulfs, bays, seas andother bodies of water now existing or which may hereafter exist in the provinces,cities and municipalities, municipal districts, and barangays, and the sea offreshwater around between and connecting each of the islands of the Philippinearchipelago irrespective of its depth, breadth, length and dimensions, and allother waters belonging to the Philippines including the territorial sea, exclusiveeconomic zone, and the sea bed, the insular shelves, and other submarine areasover which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction.i. Subterranean Waters. Streams, creeks, brooks, springs, and associated groundwater not subject to private ownership and not comprised within national parks,forest lands, timberland or forest reserves, that are found beneath the terrestrialfeatures of a municipality irrespective of depth or breadth but extending only upto the limits of the municipality’s geographical boundaries.SECTION 17. Terms Used in Air Quality Management. <strong>The</strong> following terms areoperationally and or conceptually defined:a. Air Pollutant. Any particle or substance found in the atmosphere other thanoxygen, nitrogen, water vapor, carbon dioxide, and the inert gasses in theirnatural or normal concentrations and includes, smoke, dust, soot, cinders, flyash, solid particles of any kind, gasses, fumes, mists, odors, and radioactivesubstances.b. Airborne Dust or Dust. Minute solid particles released into or carried into theatmosphere by natural forces or by any fuel burning, combustion, or processequipment or device, or by construction works, or by mechanical or industrialprocesses.c. Ambient Air Quality. <strong>The</strong> average atmospheric purity as distinguished fromdischarge measurements taken at the source of pollution. It is the generalamount of pollution present in a broad area.d. Emission. <strong>The</strong> act of passing into the atmosphere an air contaminant, pollutant,gas stream and unwanted sound from a known source.243