HP0238
LD 314
Session - 129th Maine Legislature
 
LR 854
Item 1
Bill Tracking, Additional Documents Chamber Status

An Act To Simplify Apprenticeship Requirements for Student and Apprentice Lobster and Crab Fishing License Holders

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §6422, sub-§1-A  is enacted to read:

1-A Validation of experience.   The commissioner shall allow a person with an apprentice lobster and crab fishing license or a student lobster and crab fishing license to demonstrate program completion through documentation that the license holder has verified landings of at least 4,000 pounds of lobster over a period of not less than 2 years. Nothing in this subsection prohibits the commissioner from establishing additional methods for a person with an apprentice lobster and crab fishing license or a student lobster and crab fishing license to demonstrate program completion.

summary

This bill requires the Commissioner of Marine Resources to allow a person with an apprentice lobster and crab fishing license or a student lobster and crab fishing license to demonstrate apprentice program completion through verified landings of at least 4,000 pounds of lobster over a period of not less than 2 years.


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