Statute · California Fish and Game Code
Cal. Fish & Game Code § 8250.5 — Lobster
Cal. Fish & Game Code § 8250.5
- Type
- Statute
- Source
- California Fish and Game Code
- Jurisdiction
- California
- Date
- 2008-01-01
- Current through
- Nov 2, 2026 (California Legislative Counsel)
(a) Subject to this article and Article 1 (commencing with Section 9000) of Chapter 4, a lobster trap, as described in Section 9010, may be used to take lobster for commercial purposes under a lobster permit issued pursuant to Section 8254.
Citator
Cal. Fish & Game Code § 8250.5 — Lobster is in force in the current edition of the Code, and nothing recorded condemns it.
(a) Subject to this article and Article 1 (commencing with Section 9000) of Chapter 4, a lobster trap, as described in Section 9010, may be used to take lobster for commercial purposes under a lobster permit issued pursuant to Section 8254.
(b) The following species may be taken incidentally in lobster traps being fished under the authority of a lobster permit issued pursuant to Section 8254, and any other species taken incidentally shall be immediately released back to the water:
(1) Crab, other than Dungeness crab.
(2) Kellet’s whelk.
(3) Octopus.
(c) Spiny lobsters taken in the manner commonly known as skindiving or by a person using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus shall not be sold.