OK, the email exchange with the Crab Nazis was back in October 2008, and I guess I must have deleted it the last time I was cleaining out the 5000 emails in my Inbox, sorry!
Well, I AM a lawyer, and I don't understand the regs - I emailed WDFW for clarification on exactly these points, and got a non-responsive mumbo-jumbo response. And the WDFW agents are not real sympathetic dudes, so I guess you pays your money and takes your chances!