{"id":26702,"date":"2019-03-29T15:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=26702"},"modified":"2019-03-29T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T19:49:01","slug":"marylands-recreational-crabbing-season-begins-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/03\/29\/marylands-recreational-crabbing-season-begins-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland’s Recreational Crabbing Season Begins April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maryland Tradition Springs to Life<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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The recreational crabbing season in Maryland officially opens April 1 for the Chesapeake Bay and tidal tributaries as well as in the Atlantic Ocean, coastal bays and their tributaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recreational crabbing in Maryland can be done a variety of ways, with or without a license depending on the equipment and location. <\/span>Licenses are required<\/span><\/a> for anyone who uses a trotline, collapsible crab traps, net rings, seines or eel pots.<\/span><\/p>\n

A license is not required for anyone using handlines or dip nets. In addition, waterfront property owners, lessee, or tenant of a private shoreline property can <\/span>register<\/span><\/a> to crab license-free using up to two crab pots.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A recreational crabbing license is not required in the Atlantic Ocean, coastal bays and their tributaries. Additionally, any passenger of a boat with a valid crabbing license doesn\u2019t need an individual license to crab.<\/span><\/p>\n

To protect other aquatic species, all crab pots used by waterfront property owners in Maryland <\/span>must be fitted with a bycatch reduction or turtle excluder device<\/a><\/span> in every entry funnel. Pots must also be marked with the owner\u2019s name and address or DNR identification number<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All recreational crabbers are prohibited from selling crabs or possessing an egg-bearing (sponge) crab or any female hard or peeler crab.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More information \u00a0on crabbing licenses, restrictions, possession limits and size limits is available in the <\/span>2019 Maryland Guide to Fishing and Crabbing.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Maryland Tradition Springs to Life The recreational crabbing season in Maryland officially opens April 1 for the Chesapeake Bay and tidal tributaries as well as in the Atlantic Ocean, coastal bays and their tributaries. Recreational crabbing in Maryland can be done a variety of ways, with or without a license depending on the equipment and  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3171,11],"tags":[2995,3905,2982,3312,4314],"class_list":["post-26702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-boating","category-fisheries","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-blue-crab","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-coastal-bays","tag-sportfishing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26715,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26702\/revisions\/26715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}