DIVISION 0.5. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS 1-99.5›CHAPTER 2. Marine Life Definitions 90-99.5

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California Fish and Game Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

“Overfishing” means a rate or level of taking that the best available scientific information, and other relevant information that the commission or department possesses or receives, indicates is not sustainable or that jeopardizes the capacity of a marine fishery to produce the maximum sustainable yield on a continuing basis.

(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1052, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1999.)

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