New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Fis - Executive Director, Fish and Game Department
Chapter Fis 600 - MARINE FISHING RULES
Part Fis 602 - PROHIBITED MARINE ACTIVITIES
Section Fis 602.12 - Legal Length for Lobster

Universal Citation: NH Admin Rules Fis 602.12

Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024

(a) The minimum length for lobster shall be 3 1/4 inches except the minimum length for lobster taken or possessed in state waters by any vessel federally permitted to take lobsters in:

(1) Lobster Management Area 3 as specified in 50 CFR 697.18 shall be 3 1/2 inches except the minimum length beginning January 1, 2013 shall be 3 17/32; and

(2) Lobster Management Areas 2, 4, 5, 6, and the Outer Cape Lobster Management area shall be 3 3/8.

(b) The maximum length for lobster shall be 5 inches except as provided in RSA 211:27, III(b) or any vessel federally permitted to take lobsters in:

(1) Lobster Management Areas 2, 4, 5 and 6 shall be 5 1/4 inches; and

(2) Lobster Management Area 3 shall be 6 3/4 inches.

(c) Lobster tail meat taken from the shell shall not be less than 4 1/4 inches.

(d) Lobster and lobster meat taken from the shell shall be measured in accordance with RSA 211:27.

(e) No person shall possess or offer for sale individual lobster tails with the lobster meat in the shell except a person, firm or corporation properly licensed pursuant to RSA 211:49-c and who possesses a lobster tail processing permit specified in Fis 609.03.

#4604, eff 4-26-89; ss by #4868, eff 7-20-90; ss by #6291, eff 7-20-96; rpld by #6443, eff 5-15-97; ss by #6916, eff 12-22-98; ss by #7711, eff 6-20-02; ss by #7914, EXEMPT, eff 6-30-03; ss by #8343, EXEMPT, eff 7-1-05; ss by #8819, EXEMPT, eff 2-1-07; ss by #9186, EXEMPT, eff 6-24-08; amd by #9772, INTERIM, eff 8-26-10, para (e) EXPIRED: 2-22-11; amd by #9887, eff 3-15-11 (para (e)); amd by #10266, EXEMPT, eff 1-29-13; (para (a) &(b))

The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 36, Number 14, eff.3/9/2016 is not yet available.

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