"Ghost" Crab Pots Still Killing Notable Numbers of King Crabs in Kodiak
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Associated Press] February 25, 2015
Derelict crab pots lost on the bottom of a Kodiak Island bay are capturing significant numbers of its king crab, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Abandoned pots, the traps used by fishermen to catch crab, could be killing 16 to 37 percent of the red king crab with shells longer than 40 millimeters in Womens Bay, they concluded in a study.
Biologists Peter Cummiskey and Eric Munk and analyst Chris Long studied movements of 192 king crabs between 1991 and 2008. They attached acoustic tags and tracked them with hydrophones, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported...
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