Section 1726.4 Of Chapter 7.2. Trout Management From California Fish And Game Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 7.2.
1726.4
. (a) For the purposes of this chapter, "trout" includes
steelhead trout.
(b) The department, in administering its existing wild trout
program, shall maintain an inventory of all California trout streams
and lakes to determine the most suitable angling regulations for each
stream or lake. The department shall determine for each stream or
lake whether it should be managed as a wild trout fishery, or whether
its management should involve the temporary planting of native trout
species to supplement wild trout populations that is consistent with
this chapter. In maintaining the inventory, the department shall
give priority to those streams and lakes that have the highest
biological potential for producing sizeable wild trout, which are
inhabited by rare species, or where the quality of the fishery is
threatened or endangered and take into consideration public use. The
biological and physical inventories prepared and maintained for each
stream, stream system, or lake shall include an assessment of the
resource status, threats to the continued well-being of the fishery
resource, the potential for fishery resource development, and
recommendations, including necessary changes in the allowed take of
trout, for the development of each stream or lake to its full
capacity as a fishery, consistent with this chapter.
(c) This section does not provide any public entity or private
party with any new or additional authority to affect the management
of, or access to, any private land without the written consent of the
owner. Privately owned lakes and ponds not open to the use of the
general public shall be subject to this section only with the written
consent of the owner. This chapter shall not be construed as
authorizing or requiring special treatment of adjacent land areas or
requiring land use restrictions. It is the intent of the Legislature
that this chapter should not diminish the existing authority of the
department.
(d) The department shall make the inventory maintained pursuant to
subdivision (b) publicly available on the department's Internet Web
site and the department shall continuously revise that inventory with
the goal of reviewing every watershed once per decade.