There is hereby established the Commercial Fisheries Capacity Reduction Account in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund. Fees collected pursuant to Section 8126 shall be deposited into the account. Money in the account shall be used to repay the California fishermen’s share of any federal loans used in the federal West Coast Groundfish Fishery Capacity Reduction Program (Sec. 212, P.L. 107-206). The commission may establish, by regulation, any additional program elements necessary to conform state law to federal law, in order to allow California groundfish fishermen to fully participate in the federally established buy-back program for the Pacific groundfish fishery.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 514, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)