LD 1510
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Page 8 of 9 An Act To Amend the Lobster Fishing Laws of Maine LD 1510 Title Page
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LR 627
Item 1

 
4. It removes language that provides an exemption from an
exit ratio for an individual who became eligible for but who had
not been issued a Class I, Class II or Class III license prior to
January 1, 2000. It also provides that when a lobster management
policy council proposes to the commissioner a change in an
established exit ratio, the lobster management policy council may
also propose to the commissioner a provision to allow certain
individuals to enter the zone in accordance with the previously
existing exit ratio.

 
5. It provides that the members of the lobster research,
education and development board may be reimbursed for travel
expenses for board meetings.

 
6. It creates an exception to allow persons registered for
Monhegan Lobster Conservation Area trap tags to work as crew
members outside the Monhegan Lobster Conservation Area.

 
7. It amends the wholesale seafood license with lobster
permit to prevent individuals from possessing or transporting
lobster they have taken unless they possess a Class I, II or III
or student lobster and crab fishing license. It clarifies that
license holders licensed under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title
12, section 6421 may transport lobsters they have not taken if
they are using the vessel declared on their license.

 
8. It amends the lobster tail permit to allow the processing
of only whole lobster tails and not portions of lobster tails.


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