2. Permitted activity. A lobster tail permit authorizes a wholesale seafood license holder to remove a lobster tail from a lobster and to process that whole lobster tail or portions of that lobster tail under the following conditions.

A. The lobster tail or lobster tail portions may be processed only at the establishment named in the permit.

B. The lobster tail or lobster tail portions may come from only a legal-sized lobster, as defined in section 6431.

C. All containers in which lobster tails or lobster tail portions are packed to be sold, shipped or transported must be clearly labeled with the name, address and permit number of the packer.

4. Rules. The commissioner, in accordance with Title 5, chapter 375, may adopt rules necessary for implementation and enforcement of this section. These rules may include provisions for determining that lobster tails or lobster tail portions processed by a wholesale seafood license holder under this section were removed by that wholesale seafood license holder from legal-sized lobsters and other provisions as may be determined necessary.

SUMMARY

This bill amends the laws governing lobster and crab fishing in the following ways.

1. It provides a definition of "full-time student" to be used to determine eligibility for obtaining a student lobster and crab fishing license.

2. It amends the trap tag program to remove the December 31, 2005 repeal on the build-up provisions and strikes language no longer relevant regarding initial trap tag allocations.

3. It requires that all zones that a person declares on a license application be on that person's license, and states that a person may not place any traps in a zone that is not identified on that person's license. It states that the number of trap tags sold will be used to determine the majority of a person's traps, rather than the number of traps fished.