“Discards” means fish that are taken in a fishery but are not retained because they are of an undesirable species, size, sex, or quality, or because they are required by law not to be retained.
Cal. Fish & Game Code § 91
Marine Life Definitions
Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1052, Sec. 4
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