California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1 - Fish and Game Commission-Department of Fish and Game
Subdivision 1 - Fish, Amphibians and Reptiles
Chapter 5.5 - Fishery Management Plans
Article 2 - White Seabass Fishery Management Plan
Section 51.01 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 14 CA Code of Regs 51.01

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

These definitions are in addition to those definitions specified in Section 50.01.

(a) Fishing year under the White Seabass Management Plan means the period from September 1 through August 31.

(b) Overfished stock means that the total annual commercial catch of white seabass in pounds reported landed on fish receipts provided to the department for the past two consecutive years declined each year by 20 percent or greater from the prior five-year average of landings, a 20 percent decline occurs in the number of fish and average size of fish (round weight) for the same two consecutive years for white seabass caught in the sport fishery as determined based on best available data, and recruitment indices for juvenile white seabass decline each year by 30 percent or greater from the prior 5-year average of recruitment. This definition will remain in use until the White Seabass Scientific and Constituent Advisory Panel (WSSCAP) develops, and the commission adopts by regulation, a different definition [required by Fish and Game Code Subsection 7086(a)].

(c) Point of concern means one or more of the following conditions affecting white seabass that, if found or expected to exist, may trigger the application or adjustment of one or more management measures by the commission.

(1) catch is expected to exceed the current harvest guideline or quota;

(2) any adverse or significant change in the biological characteristics of white seabass (age composition, size composition, age at maturity, or recruitment) is discovered;

(3) an overfishing condition exists or is imminent;

(4) any adverse or significant change in the availability of a managed species' forage for dependent species or in the status of a dependent species is discovered;

(5) new information on the status of white seabass;

(6) an error in data or a stock assessment is detected that significantly changes estimates of impacts due to current management.

(d) Points of concern process means a process authorizing the commission to apply or adjust fishery management measures at any time during the year based on confirmation of the existence of one or more resource-based points of concern identified in a fishery management plan pursuant to Subsections 50.03(a)(1) and (2).

(e) Socio-economic benefits means one or more social or economic issues as specified in the FMP affecting white seabass that, if found or expected to exist, may trigger the application or adjustment of one or more management measures by the commission pursuant to Section 50.03.

(f) White seabass means Atractoscion nobilis.

(g) White seabass fishery means fishing for or harvesting of white seabass inside and outside of California by vessels subject to California law.

(h) White Seabass Fishery Management Plan means the White Seabass Fishery Management Plan approved by the Fish and Game Commission on April 4, 2002, which is hereby incorporated by reference except for 5.3.2B and 5.3.3.

1. New section filed 7-31-2002; operative 8-30-2002 (Register 2002, No. 31).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 7071 and 7086, Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections 7071, 7075, 7082 and 7086, Fish and Game Code.

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