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lhpdiver:I know you are supposed to gauge a lobster while in the water, and I know there is a bag limit, but is there anything in the law (human not nature) about keeping a lobster with eggs ? how about one with tar spots and no eggs ?
Johnoly:Bugs having tar spots can be harvested. Bugs having eggs can not be harvested.
Here is a summary page of regs and you can dig deeper from there.
http://myfwc.com/marine/lobster.htm
lhpdiver:I had noticed that page earlier today. There is no mention of the word egg on there. Just out of curiousity (sp ?) I called the number on the back of my license today but only got someone's voice mail. A lot of the links (to .pdf files and such) on the state websites seem to be broken.