                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 28.2-700)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Crab dredge&#8221; means a device, which may have teeth on the bar,
that is designed and used to catch crabs buried in the bottom.
		&#8220;Crab pot&#8221; means a device made of wire or thread net used to catch
crabs.
		&#8220;Peeler crab&#8221;, 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.
		&#8220;Peeler pot&#8221; means a wire mesh pot baited with only live adult
male (jimmy) blue crabs.

HISTORY: 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.