Section 8664.2.

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 8693 and 8724, gill nets and trammel nets shall not be used offshore of San Nicolas Island in Ventura County in waters 20 fathoms or less in depth at mean lower low water.

(b) No person, except state, local, or federal employees in the performance of their official duties, shall discharge any firearm within the sea otter translocation zone surrounding San Nicolas Island.

(c) For purposes of this section, "sea otter translocation zone" includes San Nicolas Island, the nearby islet of Begg Rock, and surrounding waters within the following coordinates:

(North Latitude/West Longitude)
33° 27.8´ / 119° 34.3´	33° 20.5´ / 119° 15.5´
33° 13.5´ / 119° 11.8´	33° 06.5´ / 119° 15.3´
33° 02.8´ / 119° 26.8´	33° 08.8´ / 119° 46.3´
33° 17.2´ / 119° 56.9´	33° 30.9´ / 119° 54.2´

(d) The taking of a sea otter that is incidental to, and not for the purpose of, the carrying out of an otherwise lawful activity within the sea otter management zone described in subdivision (e), is not a violation of the California Endangered Species Act, Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 2050) of Division 3, or Section 4700.

(e) For purposes of this section, "sea otter management zone" includes all waters, islands, islets, and land areas seaward of mean high tide subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, including state tidelands, located south of Point Conception (34°26.9´ N. Latitude), excepting therefrom any area within the sea otter translocation zone described in subdivision (c).

(f) This section shall become operative only upon the relocation and release of sea otters to San Nicolas Island. This section shall become inoperative if the sea otter translocation experiment is declared a failure pursuant to the provisions of Public Law 99-625.

(Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 702, Sec. 10. Effective September 18, 1987. Pursuant to subd. (f), this section (after becoming operative) became inoperative on January 18, 2013.)