RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 303 (HB 198) 2015 Regular Session St. Germain
Prior law provided for a $35 commercial crab trap gear license fee for any number of legal
crab traps. Dedicated $5 from each license to the Derelict Crab Trap Removal Program
Account and $5 to the Crab Promotion and Marketing Account. Exempted residents who
hold a senior commercial fishing license.
New law increases the gear license fee from $35 to $50. Increases the two dedications from
$5 to $10 each. Retains exemption for resident senior commercial license holders.
Existing law provides for a nonresident gear fee equal to four times the resident rate. In the
case of prior law applicable to crab trap gear licenses, the nonresident gear fee for crab traps
was $140. Dedicated $20 from each license to the Derelict Crab Trap Removal Program
Account and $20 to the Crab Promotion and Marketing Account.
New law leaves the nonresident rate at four times the resident rate which would now become
$200 per year and increases the dedications to each program from $20 to $40.
Effective Aug. 1, 2015.
(Amends R.S. 56:305(B)(2) and (C)(1))