California Fish and Game Code 90.5 – “Bycatch” means fish or other marine life that are taken in a fishery …
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“Bycatch” means fish or other marine life that are taken in a fishery but which are not the target of the fishery. “Bycatch” includes discards.
(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1052, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1999.)
Terms Used In California Fish and Game Code 90.5
- Discards: means fish that are taken in a fishery but are not retained because they are of an undesirable species, size, sex, or quality, or because they are required by law not to be retained. See California Fish and Game Code 91
- Fish: means a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals. See California Fish and Game Code 45
- Fishery: means both of the following:
California Fish and Game Code 94