Section 513.040 - Control and regulation of amount and kind of fish commercially handled; sardine processingThe State Fish and Wildlife Commission may:
(1) Control, regulate and establish, by order, the proportion or percentage of sardines, pilchards, herring or other species of fish other than salmon, to be used for reduction purposes or the manufacture of fish flour, fish meal, fish scrap, fertilizer or oil, and may further, through such order, specifically name or prescribe the particular species of fish which may be used for reduction purposes, food for animals or other purposes.(2) Exercise full jurisdiction and control over the processing, packing or preserving of sardines, and prescribe and specify the process to be used in the canning of such fishes in order to assure a quality product and prevent the use of certain substitute oils resulting in inferior grades.