CHAPTER 7. Contents of Fishery Management Plans [7080. - 7088.]

Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC 7.

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Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC § 7080. Section 7080.

Consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 7072, each fishery management plan prepared by the department shall summarize readily available information about the fishery including, but not limited to, all of the following: (a) The species of fish and their location, number of vessels and participants involved, fishing effort, historical landings in the sport and commercial sectors, and a history of conservation and management measures affecting the fishery. (b) The natural history and population dynamics of the target species and the effects of changing oceanic conditions on the target species. (c) The habitat for the fishery and known threats to the habitat. (d) The ecosystem role of the target species and the relationship of the fishery to the ecosystem role of the target species. (e) Economic and social factors related to the fishery.

Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC § 7081. Section 7081.

Consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 7072, each fishery management plan or plan amendment prepared by the department shall include a fishery research protocol that does all of the following: (a) Describe past and ongoing monitoring of the fishery. (b) Identify essential fishery information for the fishery, including, but not limited to, age and growth, minimum size at maturity, spawning season, age structure of the population, and, if essential fishery information is lacking, identify the additional information needed and the resources and time necessary to acquire the information. (c) Indicate the steps the department shall take to monitor the fishery and to obtain essential fishery information, including the data collection and research methodologies, on an ongoing basis.

Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC § 7082. Section 7082.

Each fishery management plan or plan amendment prepared by the department shall contain the measures necessary and appropriate for the conservation and management of the fishery according to the policies and other requirements in this part. The measures may include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (a) Limitations on the fishery based on area, time, amount of catch, species, size, sex, type or amount of gear, or other factors. (b) Creation or modification of a restricted access fishery that contributes to a more orderly and sustainable fishery. (c) A procedure to establish and to periodically review and revise a catch quota in any fishery for which there is a catch quota. (d) Requirement for a personal, gear, or vessel permit and reasonable fees.

Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC § 7083. Section 7083.

(a) Each fishery management plan prepared by the department shall incorporate the existing conservation and management measures provided in this code that are determined by the department to result in a sustainable fishery. (b) If additional conservation and management measures are included in the plan, the department shall, consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 7072, summarize anticipated effects of those measures on relevant fish populations and habitats, on fishery participants, and on coastal communities and businesses that rely on the fishery.

Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC § 7084. Section 7084.

(a) Consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 7072, each fishery management plan or plan amendment prepared by the department for a fishery that the department has determined has adverse effects on marine fishery habitat shall include measures that, to the extent practicable, minimize adverse effects on habitat caused by fishing. (b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to activities regulated by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 6650) of Part 1.

Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC § 7085. Section 7085.

Consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 7072, each fishery management plan or plan amendment prepared by the department, in fisheries in which bycatch occurs, shall include all of the following: (a) Information on the amount and type of bycatch. (b) Analysis of the amount and type of bycatch based on the following criteria: (1) Legality of the bycatch under any relevant law. (2) Degree of threat to the sustainability of the bycatch species. (3) Impacts on fisheries that target the bycatch species. (4) Ecosystem impacts. (c) In the case of unacceptable amounts or types of bycatch, conservation and management measures that, in the following priority, do the following: (1) Minimize bycatch. (2) Minimize mortality of discards that cannot be avoided.

Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC § 7086. Section 7086.

(a) Consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 7072, each fishery management plan or plan amendment prepared by the department shall specify criteria for identifying when the fishery is overfished. (b) In the case of a fishery management plan for a fishery that has been determined to be overfished or in which overfishing is occurring, the fishery management plan shall contain measures to prevent, end, or otherwise appropriately address overfishing and to rebuild the fishery. (c) Any fishery management plan, plan amendment, or regulation prepared pursuant to subdivision (b), shall do both of the following: (1) Specify a time period for preventing or ending or otherwise appropriately addressing overfishing and rebuilding the fishery that shall be as short as possible, and shall not exceed 10 years except in cases where the biology of the population of fish or other environmental conditions dictate otherwise. (2) Allocate both overfishing restrictions and recovery benefits fairly and equitably among sectors of the fishery.

Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC § 7087. Section 7087.

(a) Each fishery management plan prepared by the department shall include a procedure for review and amendment of the plan, as necessary. (b) Each fishery management plan or plan amendment prepared by the department shall specify the types of regulations that the department may adopt without a plan amendment.

Cal. Fish and Game Code - FGC § 7088. Section 7088.

Each fishery management plan and plan amendment shall include a list of any statutes and regulations that shall become inoperative, as to the particular fishery covered by the fishery management plan or plan amendment, upon the commission’s adoption of implementing regulations for that fishery management plan or plan amendment.

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