“Bycatch” means fish or other marine life that are taken in a fishery but which are not the target of the fishery. “Bycatch” includes discards.
Cal. Fish & Game Code § 90.5
Marine Life Definitions
Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1052, Sec. 4
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