Fisheries Administrative Order No. 265, Series of 2020 regulating the Catching, Possession, Transporting, Selling, Trading and Exporting of Puerulus, Juvenile and Gravid Spiny Lobsters (Palinuridae).

This Fisheries Administrative Order regulates the Catching, Possession, Transporting, Selling, Trading and Exporting of Puerulus, Juvenile and Gravid Spiny Lobsters (Palinuridae). It shall be unlawful for any person, association, cooperative, partnership or corporation to undertake the following activities: a) Catching, transporting, possessing, trading and selling of gravid spiny lobsters, and juvenile spiny lobsters from the wild measuring less than the maturity Carapace Length (CL) at first sexual maturity as prescribed in Table 1 of this Order; b) Exportation of wild-sourced puerulus of spiny lobsters; and c) Exportation of spiny lobsters' breeders, spawners, eggs or fry as per provisions of Section 104 of the amended Fisheries Code.