Title FGC — California Fish & Game Code

If the department determines that any overpayment of a landing fee has been made intentionally or by reason of carelessness, it shall not allow any interest thereon.

No injunction or writ of mandate or other legal or equitable process shall issue in any suit, action, or proceeding in any court against this state or against any officer of the state to prevent or enjoin the collection under this article of any landing fee.

No suit or proceeding shall be maintained in any court for the recovery of any amount of landing fee alleged to have been erroneously paid or erroneously or illegally determined or collected unless a claim for refund or credit has been duly filed pursuant to Sections 8058 and 805…

Within 90 days after the mailing of the notice of the department’s action upon a claim filed pursuant to Sections 8058 and 8059, the claimant may bring an action against the department on the grounds set forth in the claim in a court of competent jurisdiction in any city or city …

If the department fails to mail notice of action on a claim for refund or credit for overpayment of a landing fee within six months after the claim is filed, the claimant may, before the mailing of notice by the department of its action on the claim, consider the claim disallowed…

If judgment is rendered for the plaintiff, the amount of the judgment shall first be credited on any landing fee due and payable from the plaintiff to the state under this article. The balance of the judgment shall be refunded to the plaintiff.

In any judgment, interest shall be allowed at the legal rate of interest on unsatisfied judgments, as provided in Section 685.010 of the Code of Civil Procedure, upon the amount found to have been illegally collected from the date of payment of the amount to the date of allowance…

A judgment shall not be rendered in favor of the plaintiff in any action brought against the department to recover any amount paid when the action is brought by or in the name of an assignee of the person paying the amount or by any person other than the person who paid the amoun…

The commission may grant a permit, subject to such regulations as it may prescribe, to take and use fish by a reduction or extraction process. (Enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch. 456.)

No reduction of fish shall be permitted which may tend to deplete the species, or result in waste or deterioration of fish. (Enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch. 456.)

No permit shall be issued except after a public hearing and a finding by the commission that the granting thereof would promote the economic utilization of the fish resources of the State in the public interest. In making such finding the commission shall take into consideration …

A hearing pursuant to this article shall be held within 30 days after application for a permit, upon such notice as the commission shall prescribe. The commission may extend such a hearing from time to time for a total period of not more than 30 days. (Enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch.…

The commission shall, whenever necessary to prevent overexpansion, to insure the efficient and economical operation of reduction plants, or to otherwise carry out the provisions of this article, limit the total number of permits which are granted. (Enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch. 456…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or regulation adopted pursuant to this code, the director or a representative appointed by the director, may, without notice or a hearing, grant a license to a fish reduction plant to dispose of dead or dying fish. The license may …

Nothing in this article restricts the power of any court in any proceeding relating to any matter arising out of the provisions of this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1957, Ch. 456.)

“Limited entry fishery” means a fishery in which the number of persons who may participate or the number of vessels that may be used in taking a specified species of fish is limited by statute or regulation.

(a) Any licensed fisherman shall be eligible for inclusion during the initial year of a limited entry fishery which is established by statute that becomes operative after January 1, 1982, or by regulation that becomes operative after January 1, 1999, regardless of the prescribed …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that, in some limited entry fisheries, two or more partners may be operating with one of the partners holding the permit to participate in the fishery. The Legislature further finds and declares that undocumented, de facto, family partnershi…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) The accidental death of a limited entry permittee results in great hardships on the permittee’s family. (2) Under the law as it existed immediately prior to January 1, 1987, if a member of the permittee’s family has not been …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that dramatic changes have very recently taken place in the methods and geographic areas of effort by California-based commercial fishermen. (b) The Legislature further finds and declares that because the conditions which now exist could not…

“Far offshore fishery” means a fishery that lies outside the United States 200-mile exclusive economic zone, as defined by paragraph (6) of Section 1802 of Title 16 of the United States Code.

Notwithstanding any other section of this code, fish taken in a far offshore fishery, which may be lawfully imported, may be landed in this state by persons operating a commercial fishing vessel registered pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 7880) who took the fish in …

(a) Prior to departure from any port in the United States for the purpose of taking fish in the far offshore fishery, the operator of any vessel landing fish in California that will be taken in the far offshore fishery shall file a declaration with the department on forms prescri…

It is unlawful for the operator of any vessel operating under authority of this article to fish in, or land fish from, any waters within the United States 200-mile exclusive economic zone during any trip for which the operator filed a declaration with the department to fish in th…

The definitions in this section govern the construction of this article: (a) “Environmental purpose” means the intent to prevent or minimize adverse ecological effects to water quality. (b) “High seas interception” means the unauthorized taking of salmon for commercial purposes o…

It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following: (a) To buy, sell, trade, process, or possess salmon, or attempt to buy, sell, trade, process, or possess salmon, with the knowledge that the salmon has been, or will be, obtained by high seas interception. (b) To knowingly…

It is unlawful for any person to create, circulate, or possess any written instrument related to salmon with the knowledge that the written instrument conveys misleading or untrue information about the ownership, possession, processing, origin, destination, route of shipping, typ…

(a) If any person knows that a vessel contains salmon obtained by high seas interception or that the owner or operator of the vessel intends to engage in the high seas interception of salmon, it is unlawful for that person to do any of the following: (1) Move persons, cargo, or o…

There is hereby established the Commercial Fisheries Capacity Reduction Account in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund. Fees collected pursuant to Section 8126 shall be deposited into the account. Money in the account shall be used to repay the California fishermen’s share of any…

The commission shall establish a capacity reduction fee on the taking of certain species of fish and shellfish, consistent with the West Coast Groundfish Fishery Capacity Reduction Program. In establishing the fee, the commission shall also consider the administrative cost associ…

The area described in this article is a fish and game refuge.

The following constitutes and shall be designated the San Francisco Fish and Game Refuge: All that area within the County of San Mateo, within the following boundaries: Beginning at a point on the westerly side of the Skyline Boulevard where said line crosses the fence line betwe…

The following constitutes the Pacific Grove Marine Gardens Fish Refuge: All that area within the following boundaries as they existed April 1, 1963, not within the Hopkins Marine Life Refuge: Beginning at the point of intersection of the southeasterly corporate limit line of the …

(a) The areas described in this article are game refuges. (b) An existing reference to a “Fish and Game District” that is a game refuge shall be construed to refer to the “Game Refuge” that continues the former district.

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1C: All that area within the County of Modoc within the following boundaries: Beginning at the boundary of the Modoc National Forest on the east side of Sec. 28, T. 42 N., R. 14 E., where Parker Creek crosses the national forest boundary and …

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1F: All that area within the County of Lassen within the following boundaries: Beginning at the fork of the Puls Camp Road and the Poison Lake-Harvey Valley Road near the quarter section corner between Secs. 33 and 34, T. 33 N., R. 8 E.; then…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1G: All that area within the County of Tehama within the following boundaries: Beginning at a point where Deer Creek crosses the west township line of T. 25 N., R. 2 E.; thence north along said township line and along the west township line o…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1H: All that area within the County of Plumas within the following boundaries: Beginning at a point on the Western Pacific Railway known as Quincy Junction; thence following northerly the westerly side of the Old Road to Taylorsville; thence …

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1I: All that area within the County of Placer within the following boundaries: Beginning at a point in Sec. 17, T. 14 N., R. 14 E., M.D.M., where the French House-Big Meadows Road intersects the South Fork of Long Canyon Creek; thence followi…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1J: All that area within the County of Amador within the following boundaries: Beginning at a point between Secs. 13 and 18, T. 8 N., R. 14 and 15 E., where the Carson Pass Highway (State Sign Route 88) enters Sec. 18, T. 8 N., R. 15 E.; then…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1N: All that area within the Counties of Siskiyou and Modoc within the following boundaries: Beginning at the junction of the Lava Ranger Station Road and the Egg Lake-Quaking Asp Road, thence following westerly and northerly the northerly an…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1P: All that area within the County of Plumas, within the following boundaries: Beginning at the junction of the Milford-Beckwourth Road and the Last Chance-Doyle Road, thence following the easterly side of said Milford-Beckwourt h Road to it…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1R: All that area within the County of Tuolumne within the following boundaries: Beginning at the junction of the North Fork of the Stanislaus River and the Middle Fork of the Stanislaus River; thence easterly following the northerly bank of …

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1S: All that area lying within the County of Lassen within the following boundaries: Beginning at the old Haydenhill Post Office in the approximate center of Sec. 36, T. 37 N., R. 9 E.; thence following westerly along the old Juniper Road thr…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 1V: All that area within the County of Plumas within the following boundaries: Beginning at the intersection of U. S. Alternate 40 Highway and U. S. Forest Service Road 24N12; thence following northerly the easterly side of U. S. Forest Servi…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 2A: All that area within the Counties of Mendocino, Lake, and Glenn within the following boundaries: Beginning at the summit of Hull Mountain in Mendocino County, in the southwest corner of Sec. 2, T. 19 N., R. 10 W.; thence in a northeasterl…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 2B, the Mount Tamalpais Game Refuge: All that area within the County of Marin within the following boundaries: Beginning at the intersection of the easterly shore of inner Bolinas Bay with the northwesterly boundary line extended, of the Stin…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 3F: All that area within the County of Contra Costa described as follows: All of Secs. 29, 30, 31 and 32, T. 1 N., R. 1 E.; all of Secs. 5, 6, 7 and 8, T. 1 S., R. 1 E.; all of Secs. 25, 26, 35 and 36 of T. 1 N., R. 1 W.; all of Secs. 1, 2, 1…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 3G: All those lands of the Leland Stanford Junior University within the Counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara, and consisting of lots numbers 1 to 33, inclusive; that portion of lots 35 and 42 lying outside of the town limits of the town of M…

The following constitutes Game Refuge 4D: All that area within the County of Riverside described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of State Highway 74 and Highway 111 in Section 20, T. 5 S., R. 6 E., S.B.B. & M.; Thence northwesterly on State Highway 111 to its intersecti…