§ 20-7-16. Egg-bearing blue crabs — Minimum size.
No person shall take, offer for sale, or possess at any time any female blue crab bearing eggs visible thereon, or from which the egg pouch or bunion has been removed. Unless otherwise specified by regulation of the marine fisheries council, no person shall take, buy, sell, give away, expose for sale, or possess any blue crab measuring less than four and one eighth inches (4⅛“) across the shell from tip to tip of spike.
History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 20-7 - Lobsters and Other Crustaceans
Section 20-7-1. - License required for taking of lobsters.
Section 20-7-2. - Taking of lobsters by commercial fishing vessels.
Section 20-7-3. - Noncommercial lobster licenses.
Section 20-7-4. - Diver’s lobster license.
Section 20-7-5. - Seller’s license.
Section 20-7-5.1. - [Repealed.]
Section 20-7-6. - Use of license by agent or employee.
Section 20-7-7. - Suspension and revocation of licenses.
Section 20-7-7.1. - Administrative suspension/revocation of licenses — Penalties — Appeal.
Section 20-7-8. - Exhibition of certificate.
Section 20-7-9. - Report of lobsters taken.
Section 20-7-10. - Minimum size of lobsters taken — Egg-bearing females.
Section 20-7-11. - Buoying of pots — Escape vents.
Section 20-7-11.1. - Lobster pots — Tagging — Advisory committee.
Section 20-7-12. - Removal of branded numbers from lobster pots.
Section 20-7-12.1. - Unauthorized possession and/or transfer of pots and traps.
Section 20-7-13. - Raising pots at night.
Section 20-7-14. - Mutilation of uncooked lobsters.
Section 20-7-15. - Methods of taking blue crabs — Nonresidents.