California Fish and Game Code ARTICLE 3 - Sport Fishing Licenses

• Section 7145.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, every person 16 years of age or older who takes any fish, reptile, or amphibian for any purpose...
• Section 7147.
  The owner or operator of a boat or vessel licensed pursuant to Section 7920 shall not permit any person to fish from that boat or...
• Section 7149.05.
  (a) A sport fishing license granting the privilege to take any fish, reptile, or amphibia anywhere in this state for purposes other than profit shall be...
• Section 7149.2.
  (a) In addition to Section 7149.05, the department shall issue a lifetime sport fishing license under this section. A lifetime sport fishing license authorizes the taking...
• Section 7149.3.
  Notwithstanding Section 7149.05, a sport fishing license is not required for a resident to take a rattlesnake (genus Crotalus or Sistrurus).(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch....
• Section 7149.45.
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to fish with two rods without first obtaining a second-rod sport fishing validation, in addition to a valid California...
• Section 7149.5.
  For the purpose of obtaining a sport fishing license, enrollees in the Job Corps, created by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-452),...
• Section 7149.7.
  Notwithstanding Section 7145, the director may designate not more than two days, which may or may not be consecutive, in each year as free sportfishing...
• Section 7149.8.
  (a) A person shall not take abalone from ocean waters unless he or she first obtains, in addition to a valid California sport fishing license and...
• Section 7149.9.
  (a) Fees received by the department pursuant to Section 7149.8 shall be deposited in the Abalone Restoration and Preservation Account within the Fish and Game Preservation...
• Section 7150.
  (a) Upon application to the department’s headquarters office in Sacramento and payment of a base fee of four dollars ($4), as adjusted pursuant to Section 713,...
• Section 7151.
  (a) Upon application to the department, the following persons, if they have not been convicted of any violation of this code, shall be issued, free of...
• Section 7153.
  (a) A sport fishing license is not required to take fish by any legal means, for any purpose other than profit, from a public pier, as...
• Section 7155.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, California Indians who are bona fide registered members of the Yurok Indian Tribe may take fish, for subsistence...

Last modified: October 22, 2018