---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 622.445"
title: "50"
number: "622.445"
heading: "Other harvest restrictions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/622.445"
---

# §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.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 87 FR 56217, Sept. 13, 2022, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

### Source

Source: 78 FR 22952, Apr. 17, 2013, unless otherwise noted.