Sitting at the wheel of his workboat, the Miss Renee Two, ... Watermen troll for derelict crab pots Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ...

According to VIMS, about 800,000 licensed crab pots sit on the bottom of the bay every year. And every year about 160,000 of them end up ghosted.

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The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted to review potential regulations that would require bycatch reduction devices ...

In work finished Monday, DIA has located 209 crab pots in Gastineau Channel. ... Gillnets are made from synthetic material similar to fishing line and can sit on the bottom for decades.

Boats stacked with empty crab pots sit in Kodiak’s St. Paul Harbor. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Fishermen should have been setting their gear on Sunday morning for the opening of Kodiak’s biggest ...

Two French bulldogs who were missing for more than a month in Alaska have been found dead inside a pair of crab pots -- with their owners believing they were abducted and killed in a sick ...

Willow crab pots could return in fishing's future. 6 February 2025. Share Save. Kevin Hay. BBC News, South West. Share Save. BBC. Kate Longley helped set up extremely popular pot making classes in ...

In the 2015 blue crab season, for instance, the total catch for the bay and its tributaries was 49.6 million pounds — up from 35 million pounds the previous […] Skip to content All Sections ...