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Enrolled HB 203: Relating to transportation of live crab.

00Enrolled HB 203 01 Relating to transportation of live crab. 02 _______________ 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, unless the crab have been landed in a port in the state and 07 recorded on a fish ticket form prescribed by the department [SPECIES 08 PARALITHODES CAMTSCHATICA, LIVE DUNGENESS CRAB, SPECIES 09 CANCER MAGISTER, OR LIVE TANNER CRAB, SPECIES CHIONOECETES 10 BAIRDI, EXCEPT THAT ALL OF THESE SPECIES MAY BE SHIPPED LIVE 11 VIA AIR FREIGHT AFTER PRE-PACKAGING]. 12 (b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, live [DUNGENESS] crab [, SPECIES 13 CANCER MAGISTER,] may be taken, shipped, transported, or sent from the state by 14 means of surface transportation only if the crab are taken at a time and location in the 15 state for which the Department of Environmental Conservation does not require

01 seafood processors to test [DUNGENESS] crab for the presence of marine toxins.