- (a) A person may not take out of or ship, transport, or send from this state any commercially taken live crab, unless the crab have been landed in a port in the state and recorded on a fish ticket form prescribed by the department.
- (b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, live crab may be taken, shipped, transported, or sent from the state by means of surface transportation only if the crab are taken at a time and location in the state for which the Department of Environmental Conservation does not require seafood processors to test crab for the presence of marine toxins.