Crab Trap Restrictions In the Delmarva. Bait purposes (green, asian, white leggers..)

[dson05]

I was wondering. What are the restrictions on the kind of traps we can use to catch bait crabs such as Green, Asian, White Leggers, Stone, Spotted, etc. I was thinking about making a home made small pot type of net for these. Is this not allowed? The holes wouldn't be big enough for legal sized blue crab to get in. I read about people using buckets, but I was thinking that it would be easier to make some sort of pot that can be used to catch in-water species such as white legger/stone/hermit, and also shore species such as green/asian/ghost etc. Any input would help. Thanks.

[M_Duong60]

I have made some homemade traps but have never gotten around to testing them. I know that the trap has to have cull rings in MD and that they have to have a turtle guard I think thats what its called? As for the big pots (not sure if it applies to small homemade ones) but at a bait shop last year I asked the cashier about the pots they were selling up front and she said that you have to have a pier to use them.

Of course I would double check as things might have changed.

[Jaspratt]

Sounds like a question for the dnr website.