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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>356764</law_id><section_number>28.2-700</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="70" identifier="28.2">Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="2" identifier="II">Tidal Fisheries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="6" identifier="7">Crabs</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Crab dredge</span>&#x201D; means a device, which may have teeth on the bar, that is designed and used to catch crabs buried in the bottom.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Crab pot</span>&#x201D; means a device made of wire or thread net used to catch crabs.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Peeler crab</span>&#x201D;, until the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> 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.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Peeler pot</span>&#x201D; means a wire mesh pot baited with only live adult male (jimmy) blue crabs.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 28-170, 28-173; 1954, c. 368; 1956, c. 293; 1960, c. 517; 1962, c. 406, &#xA7;&#xA7; 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, &#xA7; 28.1-165.1; 1985, c. 180; 1990, c. 154; 1992, c. 836; 1995, c. 129; 1996, c. 229.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
