§ 8250.5

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

(a) Subject to this article and Article 1 (commencing with Section 9000) of Chapter 4, a lobster trap, as described in Section 9010, may be used to take lobster for commercial purposes under a lobster permit issued pursuant to Section 8254.

(b) The following species may be taken incidentally in lobster traps being fished under the authority of a lobster permit issued pursuant to Section 8254, and any other species taken incidentally shall be immediately released back to the water:

(1) Crab, other than Dungeness crab.

(2) Kellet’s whelk.

(3) Octopus.

(c) Spiny lobsters taken in the manner commonly known as skindiving or by a person using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus shall not be sold.

(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 285, Sec. 119. Effective January 1, 2008.)

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