23:5-35.2 - Taking crabs; license; necessity; exceptions; fees; rules and regulations - New Jersey Statutes

23:5-35.2.  Taking crabs;  license;  necessity;  exceptions;  fees; rules and regulations
    No person shall take or attempt to take edible crabs from any of the tidal waters of this State in any manner except by rod, hand line, scoop net operated  by hand, or a collapsible trap continuously tended by hand, without a license  obtained from the commissioner.  The commissioner may grant and set fees for  these licenses under such rules and regulations as he may establish and he  shall also have the power to propose, adopt, amend and repeal rules and  regulations for any taking or any attempt to take and for the protection and  propagation of edible crabs in the tidal waters of this State.

     L.1980, c. 120, s. 10, eff. Sept. 29, 1980.