50 CFR § 622.445 - Other harvest restrictions.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t50/s622.445"
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legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "50 CFR § 622.445 - Other harvest restrictions."
title_number: 50
title_name: "Wildlife and Fisheries"
section_number: "622.445"
section_name: "Other harvest restrictions."
chapter_name: "FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
part_number: "622"
part_name: "FISHERIES OF THE CARIBBEAN, GULF OF AMERICA, AND SOUTH ATLANTIC"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "16 U.S.C. 1801"
regulatory_source: "78 FR 22952, Apr. 17, 2013, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "622"
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# 622.445 Other harvest restrictions.

(a)-(b) [Reserved]

(c) *Spiny lobster*—(1) *Prohibition on harvest of egg-bearing spiny lobster.* Egg-bearing spiny lobster in the EEZ around Puerto Rico must be returned to the water unharmed. An egg-bearing spiny lobster may be retained in a spiny lobster 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.

(2) *Landing spiny lobster intact.* (i) A spiny lobster in or from the EEZ around Puerto Rico must be maintained with head and carapace intact through offloading ashore.

(ii) The operator of a vessel that fishes in the EEZ around Puerto Rico is responsible for ensuring that spiny lobster on that vessel are maintained intact through offloading ashore, as specified in this section.