322 CMR, § 6.34
Asian Horseshoe Crab means those species of horseshoe crab identified as Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, Tachypleus gigas and Tachypleus tridentatus.
Bait Fishery Quota means the total annual allowable harvest of horseshoe crabs for the bait fishery to be established by the Division of Marine Fisheries.
Biomedical Fisher means any person who has been issued a special biomedical horseshoe crab harvest permit by the Director in accordance with 322 CMR 7.01(4)(f) allowing the retention, possession, and landing of horseshoe crabs for biomedical or research purposes and direct sale to a biomedical dealer or biomedical processor or research institution authorized by the Director to conduct biomedical or research activities.
Biomedical Dealer means any person or entity, permitted in accordance with M.G.L. c. 130, § 80 and 322 CMR 7.01(3), who has a contractual relationship with a biomedical processor and authorized at 322 CMR 7.07: Dealers Acting as Primary Buyers to conduct a primary purchase of horseshoe crabs from a biomedical fisher.
Biomedical Processor means any person or entity, permitted in accordance with M.G.L. c. 130, § 80 and 322 CMR 7.01(3) and authorized by the Director to process horseshoe crabs for biomedical purposes.
Biomedical Processor Quota means the total annual allowable harvest of horseshoe crabs for biomedical processing in Massachusetts assigned by the Division in equal shares to each permitted biomedical processor.
Cape Cod National Seashore means that area of land and waters located in Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, and Chatham under the control of the United States Department of the Interior's National Park Service pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 459b.
Commercial Fisher means any person permitted in accordance with M.G.L. c. 130, § 80 and 322 CMR 7.01(2) to participate in the commercial bait fishery for horseshoe crabs and retain, possess, and land horseshoe crabs for purpose of sale, barter, or exchange or any person who keeps for personal or family use any horseshoe crab taken under the authority of said permit.
Director means the Director of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.
Division means the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.
Horseshoe Crab means the species known as Limulus polyphemus.
Land means to transfer or attempt to transfer the catch of horseshoe crabs from any vessel to any other vessel or onto any land, pier, ramp, wharf, dock or other artificial structure, or for a fishing vessel with any horseshoe crabs onboard to tie-up to any pier, wharf, dock, or artificial structure.
Mobile Gear means any moveable gear or encircling fishing gear or nets, which are towed, hauled or dragged through the water for the harvest of fish. This includes, but is not limited to, pair trawls, otter trawls, beam trawls, mid-water trawls, Scottish seines, pair seines, purse seines or shellfish dredges.
Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge means that area of lands and waters located in Chatham under the control of the United States Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service. The boundaries thereof are described in the October 30, 2015 Notice of Availability for the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Impact Statement at 80 F.R. 66928; published in the March 2016 Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan; and first established in 1944 via the Declaration of the Taking filed by the Department of the Interior with the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Primary Purchase means the first commercial transaction by sale, barter, or exchange of horseshoe crabs after its harvest.
Total Mortality means the number of horseshoe crabs harvested in the biomedical horseshoe crab fishery that died during harvest, handling, transportation, storage, penning, processing, and release.
Trawl means a fishing practice that herds or captures target species by towing a net through the ocean.
Trip means that period of time that begins when a fishing vessel departs from a dock, berth, beach, seawall, ramp or port to carry out commercial fishing operations and that ends with a return to a dock, berth seawall, ramp or port.
Trip Limit means the maximum lawful amount of horseshoe crabs that a commercial fisher or biomedical fisher may retain, possess, or land within the Commonwealth or sell, barter or exchange or offer for sale barter or exchange. Trip limits apply per trip or per calendar day, whichever period of time is longer and are applied to the vessel named on the commercial fishing permit regardless of the number of commercial fishing permits or letters of authorization carried on board the vessel.
Pleasant Bay Complex. It shall be unlawful to harvest horseshoe crabs from Pleasant Bay, as defined at 322 CMR 4.02: Use of Nets in Inshore Restricted Waters, except if lawfully participating in the biomedical horseshoe fishery under the authority of a special biomedical horseshoe crab harvest permit endorsement issued in accordance with 322 CMR 7.01(4).
322 CMR, § 6.34