{"data":{"id":"us-va/va.-code-28.2-700","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"Va. Code § 28.2-700","heading":"Definitions","body":"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.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.","path":["Title 28.2. FISHERIES AND HABITAT OF THE TIDAL WATERS","Subtitle II. TIDAL FISHERIES","Chapter 7. CRABS","Article 1. General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/28.2-700/","current_through":"9/4/2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:15:19Z","sha256":"abd896221285f98f9cbe9ec2304d736ea90fb0074e092370106e2c449a67adee","source_id":"us-va","stale":true,"prev":"us-va/va.-code-28.2-650","next":"us-va/va.-code-28.2-701"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}