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 3 - Nearshore Fishery Management Plan › Section 52.01 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Definitions for
nearshore fish stocks, nearshore fisheries
, and
nearshore waters
are included in Section
					 1.90, Title 14, CCR.
(b)
Allocation
means
					 assignment of an amount of catch to different sectors of a fishery.
(c)
Cape Mendocino
for
					 purposes of describing the boundary of fishery management areas means a point
					 on the mainland shore at 40 degrees 10 minutes north latitude.
(d)
Council
means Pacific
					 Fishery Management Council [see subdivision (k) below].
(e)
Fishery Control Rule
means specified approaches to determining the amount and type of catch allowed
					 in a fishery.
(f)
National
					 Marine Fisheries Service or NMFS
means the National Marine Fisheries
					 Service in the United States Department of Commerce.
(g)
Nearshore Fishery Management Plan
					 (Nearshore FMP)
means sections
					 1 and
					 2 of the Nearshore Fishery
					 Management Plan approved by the Commission on August 29, 2002, hereby
					 incorporated by reference except for the "notice actions" process described in
					 section 1, page 1-14.
(h)
Nearshore Rockfish
means
					 black rockfish (
Sebastes melanops
), black-and-yellow rockfish
					 (
Sebastes chrysomelas
), blue rockfish (
Sebastes
					 mystinus
), brown rockfish (
Sebastes auriculatus
),
					 calico rockfish (
Sebastes dallii
), California scorpionfish
					 (
Scorpaena guttata
), China rockfish (
Sebastes
					 nebulosus
), copper rockfish (
Sebastes caurinus
),
					 gopher rockfish (
Sebastes carnatus
), grass rockfish
					 (
Sebastes rastrelliger
), kelp rockfish (
Sebastes
					 atrovirens
), olive rockfish (
Sebastes serranoides
),
					 quillback rockfish (
Sebastes maliger
), treefish
					 (
Sebastes serriceps
).
(i)
Overfished
is defined at
					 Section
					 97.5 of
					 the Fish and Game Code, and in the Nearshore FMP also means a population that
					 falls below the threshold of 30% of the estimated unfished biomass.
(j)
Overfishing
is defined
					 at Section
					 98 of
					 the Fish and Game Code, and in the Nearshore FMP also means that the total
					 catch of a nearshore fish population exceeds the Total Allowable Catch in any
					 year or season.
(k)
PFMC or
					 Council
means the Pacific Fishery Management Council established
					 pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
					 Act.
(l)
Quota
means a specified numerical amount of landings (excluding discard mortality),
					 the attainment (or expected attainment) of which may cause closure of the
					 fishery.
(m)
Total
					 Allowable Catch or TAC
means a specified numerical amount of catch
					 (including discard mortality), the attainment (or expected attainment) of which
					 may cause closure of the fishery. In Stage I of the Nearshore FMP Fishery
					 Control Rule, TAC is equivalent to a proxy for Optimum Yield as adopted in
					 state or federal regulations; In Stages II and III, TAC is equivalent to
					 Optimum Yield as adopted in state or federal regulations.
(n)
Unfished Biomass or
					 Bunfished
means an estimate of the biomass or population size that
					 would exist if there had been no fishing in recent history (within several
					 generations) of a fish population.
(o)
Definitions
contained in
					 Chapter 1, and Article 1 of Chapter 5.5, of Subdivision
					 1, Division 1, Title 14, CCR, and
					 Chapters 1 and 2 of Division 0.5 of the Fish and Game Code, apply to the
					 nearshore fishery in addition to definitions of this section.
1. New
						section filed 1-9-2003; operative 2-8-2003 (Register 2003, No.
						2).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						  7071,
						  Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections
						  7071,
						  7075,
						  7078,
						  7083
						  and
						  7086,
						  Fish and Game Code.