As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Crab dredge" means a device, which may have teeth on the bar, that is designed and used to catch crabs buried in the bottom.
"Crab pot" means a device made of wire or thread net used to catch crabs.
"Peeler crab", until the Commission promulgates a different definition, means a crab that has a soft shell fully developed under the hard shell, or a crab on which there is a pink or white line or rim on the edge of that part of the back fin next to the outer section of this fin.
"Peeler pot" means a wire mesh pot baited with only live adult male (jimmy) blue crabs.
Code 1950, §§ 28-170, 28-173; 1954, c. 368; 1956, c. 293; 1960, c. 517; 1962, c. 406, §§ 28.1-165, 28.1-169; 1964, c. 393; 1966, c. 684; 1968, c. 785; 1970, c. 726; 1979, c. 274; 1983, cc. 307, 603, § 28.1-165.1; 1985, c. 180; 1990, c. 154; 1992, c. 836; 1995, c. 129; 1996, c. 229.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 28.2 - Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters
§ 28.2-701. Crab traps, crab pots and crab pounds; regulations; penalty
§ 28.2-702. Licenses to take crabs; shedding operations; amount of fee
§ 28.2-703. License for certain assistants not required
§ 28.2-704. Sale of crabbing licenses
§ 28.2-705. License restrictions; exemption; penalty
§ 28.2-706. Restrictions on crab scraping; penalty
§ 28.2-707. Restrictions on crab dredging; penalty
§ 28.2-708. Limitations on sizes of crabs to be taken; inspection of catch; exemption; penalty
§ 28.2-709. Closed season for taking crabs in certain area; penalty
§ 28.2-710. Unlawful to place crab, eel, or fish pots in certain channels; penalty
§ 28.2-711. Crab pots; unlawful activities; penalty
§ 28.2-712. Identification of crab pots and eel pots; penalty
§ 28.2-713. Limiting the taking of crabs by one boat in one day; penalty