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  2. Title 50 - Wildlife and Fisheries
  3. Chapter VI - FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
  4. Part 622 - FISHERIES OF THE CARIBBEAN, GULF OF MEXICO, AND SOUTH ATLANTIC
  5. Subpart T - Spiny Lobster Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 50 CFR § 622.453
50 CFR § 622.453
Prohibition on harvest of egg-bearing spiny lobster
July 17, 2020
CFR

(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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