I don’t believe that number. I want an audit.
crap trabs.
no idea why i posted that
28K traps over 3 winters. Not a bad gig to earn $6000/month + fuel and equipment for a “waterman” to locate less than 3 traps per day. Another case of our tax dollars hardly working.
Government solution? Pay somebody 300/day to do what somebody else could do for 200.
Crab haunting ping
Hmmm...this is fairly interesting. Now, I am not a waterman, but, it is my understanding that crabs prefer fresher bait. If a lost pot has been in the water too long, the original bait(fish most likely) will be gone and the crabs caught in the pot will become cannibals. Crabs are not naturally cannibals. They will start to avoid the pot if they detect(for lack of a better word) dead and dying crabs.
This sounds like a subsidy for Virginia crabbers to stop them from over-fishing, much like the subsidies for So. Maryland farmers.
If any FReepers follow the water, please set me straight.
They need to do something similar in S. Fla. with lobster traps.
I used to sail the Keys often and at that low speed it was easy to see the bottom.
I was amazed at the number of traps I saw on the bottom with a broken line to the surface.
I’ll bet thousands of lobster are lost each year to the traps.