Section Fis 602.12 - Legal Length for Lobster(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.N.H. Admin. Code § Fis 602.12
#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))
Amended by Volume XXXV Number 49, Filed December 10, 2015, Proposed by #10975-A, Effective 11/17/2015.The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 36, Number 14, eff.3/9/2016 is not yet available.