California Fish and Game Code

§ 9002.5

FGC § 9002.5 Effective Jan 1, 2022Div. 6 · Part 3 · Ch. 4 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)Notwithstanding Section 9002, the department, in consultation with the Dungeness crab task force, shall establish a retrieval program to provide for the retrieval of lost or abandoned commercial Dungeness crab traps by June 30, 2019.

(b)The retrieval program developed pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be consistent with all of the following:

(1)(A) The department shall establish a retrieval permit that grants a person who obtains a retrieval permit the authority to retrieve Dungeness crab traps located in ocean waters belonging to another person without written permission from that person during both of the following periods of time:

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 615, Sec. 118. (AB 474) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative January 1, 2023, pursuant to Sec. 463 of Stats. 2021, Ch. 615. Inoperative April 1, 2029. Repealed as of January 1, 2030, by its own provisions.