00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 203                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to transportation of live crab."                                                                       
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 16.10.240 is amended to read:                                                                      
04 Sec. 16.10.240. Transportation of live crab [LIVE CRAB]. (a) A person                                               
05 may not take out of or [,] ship, transport, or send from this state any commercially                            
06 taken live King crab, species Paralithodes camtschatica, live Dungeness crab, species                               
07 Cancer magister, or live Tanner crab, species Chionoecetes bairdi, unless the crab                                  
08 have been landed in a port in the state and recorded on a fish ticket [EXCEPT                                       
09 THAT ALL OF THESE SPECIES MAY BE SHIPPED LIVE VIA AIR FREIGHT                                                           
10       AFTER PRE-PACKAGING].                                                                                             
11 (b)  Notwithstanding (a) of this section, live Dungeness crab, species Cancer                                           
12 magister, may be taken, shipped, transported, or sent from the state by means of                                        
13 surface transportation only if the crab are taken at a time and location in the state for                           
14 which the Department of Environmental Conservation does not require seafood                                             
15       processors to test Dungeness crab for the presence of marine toxins.