Section 6450 Of Article 4. Grass Carp From California Fish And Game Code >> Division 6. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 4.
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. The department shall adopt regulations that provide for the
control of aquatic plant pests using artificially introduced triploid
grass carp under a permit issued by the department. The regulations
shall do all of the following:
(a) Restrict triploid grass carp introductions to those triploid
grass carp that have been rendered sterile immediately after the eggs
have been fertilized.
(b) Require individual fish to be checked to ensure that a third,
triploid, set of chromosomes has been retained, preventing further
reproduction by that individual fish.
(c) Limit aquatic plant pest control programs using triploid grass
carp to the use of sterile triploid grass carp with documented
certification of triploidy to ensure sterility.
(d) Require the identification by tagging of individual fish as
the property of each owner.
(e) Require the posting of notices at stocked bodies of water
declaring the penalties for removing triploid grass carp.
(f) Limit the permits for the use of triploid grass carp in waters
on golf courses located in residential areas to those waters that
are determined by the department to be secure from the removal of
triploid grass carp to unauthorized waters.
(g) Provide for management of the triploid grass carp populations
in a manner consistent with the provisions of this code where the
department finds that such actions will benefit the long-term health
of the state's biodiversity as a whole.
(h) Until January 1, 1999, the regulations shall not authorize the
issuance of permits for the use of triploid grass carp in waters
located within condominium areas of any residential area for which a
permit may not be issued pursuant to subdivision (f) except at three
locations within the area authorized pursuant to this subdivision.
The three locations shall be selected by the department in
consultation with the Imperial Irrigation District. The limitation to
three locations is necessary to enable monitoring of human-induced
movement of triploid grass carp to unauthorized waters and to permit
the evaluation of the impact of the experiment.