ARTICLE 10. Trawl Nets
Article 10 enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch. 456.
§§ 8830–8843 · 14 sections
- § 8830 “Trawl net” means a cone or funnel-shaped net which is towed or drawn through the water by a fishing vessel and includes any gear appurtenant to the net.…
- § 8831 It is unlawful for any person to use any trawl net with meshes which are less than 41/2 inches in length except as provided in this article or as provided by…
- § 8832 Trawl nets and Chinese shrimp nets may be used in marine and brackish waters inside of the Golden Gate Bridge to take shrimp, oriental gobies, longjaw…
- § 8833 (a) In Districts 4, 19, 19A, 20, 20A, and 21, trawl nets or dragnets may not be possessed. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (a) of this…
- § 8834 It is unlawful to take or possess more than 500 pounds of crabs on any boat on which any type of trawl or drag net is carried or operated.
- § 8834.1 It is unlawful for any person to possess salmon on board, or to land salmon from, a vessel on which exists any type of trawl net, except that salmon taken…
- § 8834.5 South of a line extending due west, true, from Point Reyes, it is unlawful for any person on a vessel on which any type of trawl or drag net is carried or…
- § 8835 In Districts 6, 7, and 10, trawl nets may be used in waters not less than three nautical miles from the nearest point of land on the mainland shore.
- § 8836 In Districts 17, 18, and 118.5, trawl nets may be used in waters not less than three nautical miles from the nearest point of land on the mainland shore,…
- § 8837 It is unlawful to use or possess any trawl net that includes any bag or cod-end or modification thereof, other than a bag or cod-end of a single layer of…
- § 8840 Chafing gear may be used or possessed but shall not be connected directly to the terminal, or closed, end of the cod-end. Except for chafing gear prescribed…
- § 8841 (a) The commission is hereby granted authority over all state-managed bottom trawl fisheries not managed under a federal fishery management plan pursuant to…
- § 8842 (a) Trawl nets of a design prescribed by the commission may be used or possessed to take shrimps or prawns under a permit issued by the department under…
- § 8843 It is unlawful to use any trawl net with cod-end mesh less than 71/2 inches in length and with a cod end less than 29 meshes long and a circumference of not…