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1996 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 28.2-700 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 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.