Crab Season: April 1 to December 31 License: No license required. Daily Time Restriction: None Minimum Size (measured from tip to tip of spikes): Hard Crab - 5 inches Soft Crab - 3 1/2" inches Peeler Crab -3 1/4" APRIL 1 - JULY 14; 3 1/2" JULY 15 - DECEMBER 15 Daily Catch Limit: One (1) bushel hard crabs per person, but not more than two (2) bushels if two (2) or more persons are on a boat. IT SHALL BE LAWFUL: To crab in the Coastal Bays of Maryland's Atlantic Ocean and their tributaries using: not more than 600 feet of baited trotline, with a float of the same color, size, and shape attached to each end; or not more than two (2) 600 foot trotlines if two (2) or more persons are in the boat; or dip nets and any number of handlines; and not more than ten (10) or a combination of ten (10) collapsible crab traps or crab net rings per person from docks, piers, bridges, boats, or shorelines; or not more than twenty-five (25) or a combination of twenty-five (25) collapsible crab traps or crab net rings, if two or more persons are in the boat. For waterfront property owners to set a maximum of two (2) crab pots at their property: attached by rope or line to the property or a privately owner pier or dock; or attached to a pole in front of their property, not more than one hundred (100) yards from the shore and marked with a sign not less than six (6) inches in height indicating the owner's name and address; and are required by law to have one (1) 2 5/16-inches cull ring on a side panel of the upper compartment and one (1) 2 5/16-inches cull ring on the lower compartment; and are required by law to have a “turtle reduction device” attached to each entrance or funnel in the lower chamber constructed of wire or plastic, rectangle in shape with dimension not larger than 1 3/4-inches by 4 3/4-inches.

Sharks

Fisherman are prohibited from possessing 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 possess one shark per vessel per trip with a minimum size of 54-inches and one Atlantic sharpnose shark per person per trip with no minimum size.