California Food and Agricultural Code

§ 76601

FAC § 76601Div. 22 · Part 2 · Ch. 16 · Art. 2

Statute text

The Legislature further finds and declares that the salmon fishery of this state is affected with a public interest, in that, among other things:

(a)The harvesting, processing, manufacturing, and distributing of salmon and salmon products constitute a paramount industry of this state, which not only provides substantial and required revenues for the state and its political subdivisions and employment and a means of livelihood for many thousands of its population, but which also furnishes essential foods that are vital to the public health and welfare.

(b)The development of the salmon fishery requires, in addition to the protection and restoration of spawning and nursery habitat in rivers, rearing programs designed to rebuild salmon populations, the full utilization and efficient operation of mitigation fish hatcheries, and existing regulations that assure adequate returns of spawning salmon, an aggressive marketing program, and a program to allow for the purchase, during years of low abundance, of the allocation of fish provided to other salmon users in order to assure that the commercial salmon fishery has the maximum access to healthy salmon populations.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1500, Sec. 1.