§ 28.2-700 – Definitions
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.