§ 20-7-1 License required for taking of lobsters
§ 20-7-2 Taking of lobsters by commercial fishing vessels
§ 20-7-3 Noncommercial lobster licenses
§ 20-7-4 Diver’s lobster license
§ 20-7-5 Seller’s license
§ 20-7-6 Use of license by agent or employee
§ 20-7-7 Suspension and revocation of licenses
§ 20-7-7.1 Administrative suspension/revocation of licenses – Penalties – Appeal
§ 20-7-8 Exhibition of certificate
§ 20-7-9 Report of lobsters taken
§ 20-7-10 Minimum size of lobsters taken – Egg-bearing females
§ 20-7-11 Buoying of pots – Escape vents
§ 20-7-11.1 Lobster pots – Tagging – Advisory committee
§ 20-7-12 Removal of branded numbers from lobster pots
§ 20-7-12.1 Unauthorized possession and/or transfer of pots and traps
§ 20-7-13 Raising pots at night
§ 20-7-14 Mutilation of uncooked lobsters
§ 20-7-15 Methods of taking blue crabs – Nonresidents
§ 20-7-16 Egg-bearing blue crabs – Minimum size
§ 20-7-17 Violations as to blue crabs
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 20-7 - Lobsters and Other Crustaceans

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Commercial fishing: means to take, harvest, hold, transport, load, or off-load, marine species for sale or for intended sale;

    (3)  "Hinge width" means the distance between the convex apex of the right shell and the convex apex of the left shell;

    (4)  "Land or landing" means to off-load seafood products, including, but not limited to, finfish, shellfish, and crustaceans, for sale or intended sale, or to secure a vessel with the seafood products on board to a shoreside facility where the products may be off-loaded for sale or intended sale;

    (5)  "Nonresident landowner" means a nonresident citizen of the United States and owner of real estate in Rhode Island as evidenced by deed filed in the recorder of deeds office in a Rhode Island town or city hall;

    (6)  "Peck" means one fourth (¼) of a bushel;

    (7)  "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity;

    (8)  "Possession" means the exercise of dominion or control over the resource commencing at the time at which a decision is made not to return the resource to the immediate vicinity from which it was taken. See Rhode Island General Laws 20-1-3

  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • possession: means the exercise of dominion or control over cultured crops commencing at the time that a decision is made not to return the crops to the lease or facility from which they were taken. See Rhode Island General Laws 20-1-3
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8