Blue and stone crabs are the most common doomed prisoners — the two crab species accounted for almost 80 percent of the animals found in the 1,450 abandoned traps TPWD surveyed in its research ...

Removing derelict traps saves marine life Since 2002, volunteers mucking around in the ...

In the commercial stone crab fishery, traps are put out in long lines of up to 100 traps where each individual trap is buoyed," the FWC says on ... Traps can be made from either wood, wire or plastic.

Maximum trap size is 24 inches by 24 inches by 24 inches or a volume of 8 cubic feet; Traps can be made from either wood, wire or plastic; The throat or entrance must be 5 ½ inches by 3 ½ inches ...

Wire traps must have at least three unobstructed escape rings (2 3/8 inches in diameter) located on a vertical side of the trap. For the 2024-2025 stone crab season and beyond, ...

Water soaked the ground leading to the traps that survived the storm. Dallas Ryan, the manager of Island Crab Company in St. James City said most of the company's 4,000 stone crab traps remained ...

Feb 23, 2021 Feb 23, 2021 Updated Feb 7, 2023 PORT O’CONNOR — The sun was shining when Allan Berger and his wife, Brigid Berger, scanned the shorelines of Espiritu Santo Bay for deserted crab ...

Maximum trap size is 24 inches by 24 inches by 24 inches or a volume of 8 cubic feet. Traps can be made from either wood, wire or plastic. The throat or entrance must be 5 ½ inches by 3 ½ inches.

Stone crab season begins this weekend, with new rules ... Traps can be made from either wood, wire or plastic. The throat or entrance must be 5 ½ inches by 3 ½ inches.

So next time you spot a crab trap float on the beach, take a closer look. The letters and numbers on it might just tell you an interesting story about its journey and the fishery it once belonged to.

Crab trap floats that have washed up on the sand hold valuable clues about where they came from and what type of fishing they were used for. ... X — used for stone crab traps; ...

Under normal circumstances, crabbers start putting out stone crab traps Oct. 5 and 6 and then retrieve them on the opening day of the season. With Milton lurking in the Gulf, however, many ...