Section 2(4) in The Andhra Pradesh Aquaculture Seed (Quality Control) Act, 2006
(4)"Aqua-culture Seed" means larval early stages or juveniles or any other classes of seeds of aquatic life, including plant, plants origin, used for stocking in confined waters, such as tanks, lakes, ponds and pens or cages or any other structures erected in water, and includes,-(i)seeds of cultivable aquatic animals such as fin fish, cat fish, murel including ornamental fish and larvicidal fish, reared in fresh water, marine and brackish water and in aquaria,(ii)seeds of shell fish, such as prawn, shrimp, lobsters, crab, gastropods, bivalves and such other crustaceans and mollusees;(iii)fish larval stages (called as egg, hatchlings, spawn, fry, fingerlings, advanced fingerlings, yearlings), larval stages of prawn, shrimp, lobsters, crabs (called as nauplius, metanauplius, zoea, megalopa mysis, post larvae) and larval stages of mollusces (called veliger, spat etc.);
