3.__Exceptions.__Notwithstanding subsection 1, the following persons may be issued a sea cucumber drag license for license year 2006:

A.__A person who was certified as eligible for and obtained a sea cucumber endorsement in 2000; and

B.__A person who reported landings of at least 100,000 pounds of sea cucumbers during license year 2002, 2003 or 2004.

4.__Protection from depletion.__The commissioner may adopt rules for the sea cucumber drag license limited entry system to prohibit new entry in a year when it is necessary to protect or conserve the sea cucumber resource from imminent depletion.

§6822.__Licenses by area

If management areas are established pursuant to section 6814, then a person eligible to purchase a license under section 6821 may purchase that license for only one of the management areas.__ A person may not change from the management area in which the person harvested sea cucumbers in the previous calendar year unless the change is authorized in accordance with section 6823.__ A sea cucumber drag license authorizes the licensed activity only in the management area for which it is issued.

§6823.__Changing sea cucumber management areas

This section applies if management areas are established pursuant to section 6814.

1.__Authorization of changes.__Beginning in calendar year 2007, a person eligible to purchase a sea cucumber drag license under section 6821 who wishes to change the management area in which the person harvests sea cucumbers may not change management areas unless the change is authorized by the commissioner in accordance with this section.

2.__Management area change request on application.__A person eligible to purchase a sea cucumber drag license under section 6821 who wishes to change the management area in which that