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Maryland Fishing Regulations

 
Species 
Minimum
Size 
Season 
Creel
Limits 
Special
Conditions 
Black Drum 
16" 
year round 
1/person/day 
 
Black Sea Bass 
12.5" 
5/22-10/11 & 11/1-12/31
25/person/day 
 
Blue Fish 
8" 
year round 
10/person/day 
 
Croaker 
9" 
year round 
25/person/day 
 
Red Drum 
18"-27" 
year round 
1/person/day 
 
Striped Bass 
28" 
year round 
2/person/day 
 
Scup 
8" 
year round 
50/person/day 
 
Spotted Sea Trout 
14" 
year round 
10/person/day 
 
Summer Flounder 
19" 
4/17-11/22 
3/person/day 
 
Tautog 
14" 
5/16-10/31
1/1-5/15  & 11/1-11/30
2/person/day
4/person/day 
Closed in
December 
Weakfish 
13" 
year round 
1/person/day 
 
Sharks..................... 
Fisherman are prohibited from possesing white, dusky, sand tiger, bigeye sand tiger, whale, basking bignose, galapagos, night, caribbean reef, narrowtooth, caribbean sharpnose, smalltail, atlantic angel, longfin mako, bigeye thresher, sevengill, sixgill, and bigeye sixgill.
Except for those sharks that are prohibited, recreational fisherman are allowed to posses one shark per vessel per trip with a minimum size of 54" and one atlantic sharpnose shark per person per trip with no minimum size.  
 
Crab Season: April 1 to December 15
 
Female Harvest is Prohibited
 
License: No license required.
 
Daily Time Restriction: None
 
Minimum Size (measured from tip to tip of spikes):
Hard Crab - April 1- July 14=5" male & July 15-December15=5.25" male 
Soft Crab - 3 1/2"
Peeler Crab  3 1/4" (APRIL 1 - JULY 14)
3 1/2" (JULY 15 - DECEMBER 15)
 
Daily Catch Limit:
Two (2) dozen hard crabs per person and one (1) dozen soft crabs or peelers
 
For complete information on crab licenses click here.
 
 
 
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