3.__Fees.__The following fees must be assessed and credited to the fund.__Every wholesale seafood license holder that purchases sea cucumbers shall keep, as a part of permanent records, a record of all sea cucumbers purchased at point of first sale.__ Every wholesale seafood license holder that purchases sea cucumbers shall, on or before the last day of each month, pay to the commissioner a fee of up to 20__for every 100 pounds reported as purchased.__The commissioner shall establish by rule the amount of the fee and any procedural requirements for collection of the fee, including, but not limited to, reporting forms and monthly reporting of purchase amounts.__Timely payment of the fee is a condition of renewal of the wholesale seafood license issued under section 6851.__If it appears to the commissioner from an inspection of records or otherwise that an additional fee is due or overpayment has been made, additional assessments or refunds must be made by the commissioner to the wholesale seafood license holder.

Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §6814 is enacted to read:

§6814.__Sea cucumber rules

The commissioner may adopt rules under chapter 607, subchapter 1 to promote the conservation and propagation of sea cucumbers.__ Those rules may include, but are not limited to, the establishment of management areas in which the harvest of sea cucumbers will be permitted, limits on the number of licenses associated with those management areas and annual limits on total harvest from each of those management areas.__Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

Sec. 4. 12 MRSA c. 623, sub-c. 4, art. 3 is enacted to read:

Article 3

LIMITATIONS ON SEA CUCUMBER DRAG LICENSES

§6821.__Limited entry

1.__License eligibility.__The commissioner may not issue a sea cucumber drag license under section 6801-A to any person unless that person possessed that license in the previous calendar year or becomes eligible to obtain that license pursuant to a limited entry system under subsection 2.

2.__Sea cucumber drag license limited entry system.__The commissioner may establish by rule a limited entry system under