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Restrictions on popular shellfish & bait organisms

Species

Minimum size

Maximum per day

Collection method
Alikreukel

63,5 mm

5

-
Armadillo

-

6

-
Bloodworm

-

5

Only by hand or a suction pump
Clam

-

8

-
Crab

-

15

Catching by means of traps is prohibited.  No crab in berry may be caught
Cuttlefish

-

2

By hand
Limpet

-

15

Only by hand or with an implement with a blade or flat edge not exceeding 12 mm.
Mole crab

-

30

Mud crab

140 mm – measured across broadest part of back

6

Catching by means of traps is prohibited.  No crab in berry may be caught
Octopus

-

2

-
Oyster

-

25

Only by hand or with an implement with a blade or flat edge not exceeding 40 mm in width and not less than one metre in length
Periwinkle

-

50

-
Polychaete worms (any sea-worm including coral, wonder, shingle, moonlight, pot, rock or flatworm).

-

10

Only by hand.
Razor-clam/pencil bait

-

20

-
Red-bait

-

2 kg max. mass

(without shell)

Only by hand or with an implement with a blade or flat edge not exceeding 12 mm.
Rock mussel

30

Only by hand or with an implement with a blade or flat edge not exceeding 12 mm.
Mud Prawn

-

50

Only by hand or suction pump.
Sand Prawn

-

50

Only by hand or suction pump.
Swimming prawn

-

50

-
Scallop

-

10

-
Sea-cucumber

-

20

-
Sea-urchin

-

20

-
Siffie/venus ear

32 mm

0

Prohibited until further notice.
White mussel

35 mm

50

Only by hand or with an implement with a blade or flat edge not exceeding 12 mm.

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