Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §6301, sub-§2, ¶¶E to L and O, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 492, §3 and affected by §5, are repealed.

Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §6302, sub-§4, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 544, §1, is amended to read:

B. Lobster parts or meat, if they are purchased from a wholesale seafood license holder who possesses a lobster meat permit under section 6857 or if they have been lawfully imported.

Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §6431, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1985, c. 129, §1, is further amended to read:

4. Mutilation. It shall be is unlawful to possess any lobster, or part thereof, which that is mutilated in a manner which that makes accurate measurement impossible, except that any person, firm or corporation may possess lobster tails removed under section 6862 6865.

Sec. 4. 12 MRSA §6851, as amended by PL 1997, c. 19, §§8 and 9, is repealed.

Sec. 5. 12 MRSA §§6852 and 6853, as amended by PL 1991, c. 591, Pt. T, §15, are repealed.

Sec. 6. 12 MRSA §6853-A is enacted to read:

§6853-A.__Seafood sales license

1.__License required.__A person may not engage in the activities authorized by a license under this section without a current seafood sales license or other license issued under this Part authorizing the activities.

2.__Licensed activities.__In the wholesale or retail trade, the holder of a seafood sales license may:

A.__Within or beyond the State limits, buy, sell, process, ship or transport any marine species or its parts, except lobsters;

B.__Within or beyond the State limits, buy, sell, shuck, pack, ship or, within the State limits, transport fresh or frozen shellfish, except lobsters, to the extent these activities are expressly authorized by a shellfish certificate issued under section 6856;