Nevada Administrative Code|Section 503.0047 - "Edible portion" interpreted

                                                
 503.0047. "Edible portion" interpreted 
 
1. As used in NRS 503.050, the Commission will interpret "edible portion" to mean, with respect to: 
 
(a) A big game mammal, except mountain lions and black bears: 
 
(1) The meat of the front quarters to the knee;
 
(2) The meat of the hind quarters to the hock; and
 
(3) The meat along the backbone between the front quarters and hind quarters;
 
(b) A game mammal: 
 
(1) The meat of the front quarters to the elbow;
 
(2) The meat of the hind quarters to the hock; and
 
(3) The meat along the backbone between the front quarters and hind quarters;
 
(c) A game bird, the meat of the breast; and
 
(d) A game fish, the fillet meat from the gill plate to the tail fin.
 
2. The term does not include: 
 
(a) Meat from the head or neck;
 
(b) Meat that has been damaged and rendered inedible by the method of taking;
 
(c) Meat that is reasonably lost as a result of boning or close trimming of bones;
 
(d) Bones;
 
(e) Sinew; or
 
(f) Viscera.
 
3. As used in this section: 
 
(a) "Elbow" means the distal joint of the humerus.
 
(b) "Gill plate" means the operculum.
 
(c) "Hock" means the distal joint of the tibia-fibula.
 
(d) "Knee" means the distal joint of the radius-ulna.
 
(e) "Tail fin" means the caudal fin.
 
Added to NAC by Bd. of Wildlife Comm'rs by R041-09, eff. 10-27-2009
 
NRS 501.105, 501.181, 503.050