Prohibition on harvest of egg-bearing spiny lobster.

  1. Law
  2. CFR 50
  3. Wildlife and Fisheries
  4. Fishery Conservation and Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
  5. Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic
  6. Spiny Lobster Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. Prohibition on harvest of egg-bearing spiny lobster.

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§ 622.453 Prohibition on harvest of egg-bearing spiny lobster.

(a) Egg-bearing spiny lobster in the Caribbean EEZ must be returned to the water unharmed. An egg-bearing spiny lobster may be retained in a trap, provided the trap is returned immediately to the water. An egg-bearing spiny lobster may not be stripped, scraped, shaved, clipped, or in any other manner molested, in order to remove the eggs.

(b) [Reserved]


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