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From the DMF website
Massachusetts requires any person harvesting more than six crabs per day to have a regulated
fishery permit and to report landings monthly. New monthly catch reports were developed to
more closely fit forms for other fisheries that are entered in to an Oracle database. New reports
must include the date of harvest, trip start time and duration, port, gear type, disposition, the
gender of the crabs, harvest location, and harvest method. If the crabs are sold, the harvester
must identify the dealer or person purchasing the crabs. All scientific and research institutes and
the single biomedical company must file monthly catch reports listing the names of individuals
they purchased crabs from, in-state and out-of-state, the number of crabs purchased and how the
crabs were used. Bait dealers are required to file electronic reports weekly under the SAFIS
(Standard Atlantic Fisheries Information System) system. The biomedical company, Associates
of Cape Cod (ACC), must also report the number of crabs received dead or rejected and the
number of dead crabs returned to the biomedical vendor. (The vendor is a fisherman who
delivers crabs he, his brother, and one other fisherman harvested, all with biomedical permits, to
ACC). The biomedical vendor must report monthly the number of dead crabs from the time of
harvest to the time the crabs were returned to the water.
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