Fish and Game Code section 8250.5

(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.

Source: Section 8250.5, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=FGC§ionNum=8250.­5.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2008; accessed Nov. 3, 2025).

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