Crab trap floats found on beaches can be identified by their markings. Float colors and numbering formats can sometimes indicate their origin. Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find ...

Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find colorful crab trap floats washed up on the sand. While these plastic or foam buoys may seem like simple marine debris, they actually hold ...

When an animal dies in the trap, the dead carcass rebaits the lost trap for the next crab or fish to find ... zeroed in those derelict traps with floats left in Maurepas. Even while trying ...

If floats are lost or crabbers stop crabbing, the crab traps, nonetheless, keep working. “Even though the crab trap isn’t being used as a fishing method it still catches things. And so what ...

Crab season ended in June, but hundreds of crab trap floats and ropes still remain at sea, either broken loose or still attached to heavy steel Dungeness crab traps that rest on the sea floor ...

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The first ever Chinese mitten crab trap in Britain has been installed, as the population of the invasive species grows. Mitten crabs, which first appeared in the UK in 1935, have recently been ...

all recreational and commercial stone crab traps, plastic or wood, must have an unobstructed escape ring 2 3/16 inches in diameter. The regulation does not specify where on the trap the escape ...