{"data":{"id":"us-ca/fgc-8250.5","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"FGC § 8250.5","heading":"","body":"(a) Subject to this article and Article 1 (commencing with Section 9000) of Chapter 4, a lobster trap, as described in Section 9010, may be used to take lobster for commercial purposes under a lobster permit issued pursuant to Section 8254.\n(b) The following species may be taken incidentally in lobster traps being fished under the authority of a lobster permit issued pursuant to Section 8254, and any other species taken incidentally shall be immediately released back to the water:\n(1) Crab, other than Dungeness crab.\n(2) Kellet’s whelk.\n(3) Octopus.\n(c) Spiny lobsters taken in the manner commonly known as skindiving or by a person using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus shall not be sold.","path":["Fish and Game Code - FGC","DIVISION 6. FISH [5500. - 9101.]","PART 3. COMMERCIAL FISHING [7600. - 9101.]","CHAPTER 2. Particular Varieties of Fish [8140. - 8599.4.]","ARTICLE 5. Lobster [8250. - 8259.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"74e66d9a50d864920291c9f7f4f9a7e7c09ad0c71f54d25d2a059181ae37d008","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/fgc-8250","next":"us-ca/fgc-8251"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}