AB 2684, as amended, Stone. Hatchery practices: salmon and steelhead.
Existing law requires the Fish and Game Commission to establish fish hatcheries for stocking the waters of California with fish and requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to maintain and operate such hatcheries. Existing law also authorizes county boards of supervisors to establish and maintain fish hatcheries and authorizes the commission to issue permits to nonprofit organizations to construct and operate anadromous fish hatcheries.
This bill would require the department to implement specified policies and practices for hatchery chinookbegin delete salmon, coho salmon, and steelheadend deletebegin insert salmonend insert reared or released in California waters, including a requirement that
hatchery chinookbegin delete salmon, coho salmon, and steelheadend deletebegin insert salmonend insert released in California waters be externally marked on the top finbegin delete at a levelend deletebegin insert in a percentageend insert to be determined by the department and thatbegin delete allend delete hatchery chinookbegin delete salmon, coho salmon, and steelheadend deletebegin insert salmonend insert be coded-wire taggedbegin insert
in a percentage to be determined by the departmentend insert prior to their release.begin insert The bill would provide that any contract between the department and an entity responsible for funding a mitigation hatchery operated by the department shall require the responsible entity to pay the costs of coded-wire tagging hatchery chinook salmon to the extent the payment is consistent with the federal license requiring the responsible entity to fund the operation of the mitigation hatchery. end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1120.5 is added to the Fish and Game
2Code, to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert The department shall implement policies and
4practices for hatchery chinookbegin delete salmon, coho salmon, and steelheadend delete
5begin insert salmonend insert reared or released in California waters by adopting all of
6the following:
7(a)
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8begin insert(end insertbegin insert1)end insert Hatchery practices that improve the survival and fitness of
9the hatchery population.
10(b)
end delete
11begin insert(end insertbegin insert2)end insert Hatchery practices that reduce the genetic and ecological
12risks posed by hatchery juveniles and adults to wild and native
13populations.
14(c)
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15begin insert(end insertbegin insert3)end insert A requirement that hatchery chinookbegin delete salmon, coho salmon, begin insert salmonend insert released in California waters be externally
16and steelheadend delete
17marked on the top finbegin delete at a levelend deletebegin insert in a percentageend insert to be determined
18by the department and thatbegin delete allend delete hatchery chinookbegin delete salmon, coho begin insert
salmonend insert be coded-wire taggedbegin insert in a percentage
19salmon, and steelheadend delete
20to be determined by the departmentend insert prior to their release.
21(b) Any contract between the department and an entity
22responsible for funding a mitigation hatchery operated by the
23department shall require the responsible entity to pay the costs
24incurred pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) to the extent
25the payment is consistent with the federal license requiring the
26responsible entity to fund the operation of the mitigation hatchery.
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