Every domestic reciprocal insurer shall deposit with the Department of Consumer and Business Services $50,000, except such an insurer which exchanges policies of insurance covering only wet marine hull insurance for persons whose earned income, in whole or in part, is derived from taking and selling food resources living in an ocean, bay or river. [1967 c.359 § 119; 1977 c.651 § 3; 1993 c.709 § 5; 1999 c.196 § 5]