Bill Text: CA AB1151 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Vaquita-friendly fish and fish products.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-09-12 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Allen. [AB1151 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1151-Amended.html
Bill Title: Vaquita-friendly fish and fish products.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-09-12 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Allen. [AB1151 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1151-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
March 28, 2017 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 1151 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gloria |
February 17, 2017 |
An act to add Section 2023 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to marine life.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1151, as amended, Gloria.
Vaquita-harmful fish and fish products.
Existing law makes it unlawful for any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute a shark fin, as defined. Existing law generally makes violations of provisions relating to fish and wildlife a crime.
This bill would make it unlawful to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute vaquita-harmful fish and fish products, as defined. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would
provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) There is worldwide concern regarding the plight of the vaquita, the world’s smallest and most endangered cetacean, found only in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico.
(b) As of November 2016, there were only approximately 30 vaquitas remaining, reflecting a population decline of 90 percent between 2011 and 2016.
(c) Mortality in gill nets of various mesh size caused the vaquita’s decline and remains the predominant and immediate threat to the vaquita’s
survival.
(d) The international community has been working to reverse the decline of the vaquita, urging the exclusion of gill nets in vaquita habitat and the transition to alternative, vaquita-friendly fishing gear.
(e) For decades, fish and fish products caught with gill nets in vaquita habitat have been sold and consumed in California, incidentally contributing to the vaquita’s decline.
(f) California has an interest in the vaquita not going extinct and not suffering after getting caught in gill nets.
(f)
(g) California can support efforts to save the vaquita from extinction by enacting strong prohibitions on commerce in fish and fish products caught with gill nets in the northern Gulf of California. vaquita range.
(h) California wants to contribute to vaquita conservation, recovery, and welfare.
SEC. 2.
Section 2023 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:2023.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Fish” has the same meaning as defined in Section 45.
(1)
(2) “Northern Gulf of California” means that area of the Gulf of California, Mexico, north of 30°N.
30° N.
(2)
(3) “Vaquita-harmful fish and fish products” means raw, dried, or otherwise processed fish or fish products from the northern Gulf of California any fish or fish product caught with any kind of gill net.
net in the vaquita range.
(4) “Vaquita range” means anywhere vaquita are found to reside in the wild, including that area of the Gulf of California, Mexico, north of 30° N.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), it shall be unlawful for any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute vaquita-harmful fish and fish products.
(c) Before January 1, 2018, 2019,
any restaurant may possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute vaquita-harmful fish and fish products possessed by that restaurant, as of January 1, 2017, 2018, that is prepared for consumption.
