NOAA Uses Acoustic Tags to Track "Ghost" Fishing Pots Killing Alaskan King Crabs (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] March 2, 2015
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Dive into Women’s Bay, an inlet located on the island of Kodiak and you will find a graveyard of lost or abandoned crab pots or as NOAA’s diving biologist Pete Cummiskey likes to call “Ghost Pots.”
“The buoy connecting the pot to the surface is usually gone for one reason or another and the pot is on the bottom and is able to continue to ghost fish and can continue to fish for a long period of time.”
Cummiskey along with other divers have been tracking red king crab in the Women’s Bay area for around seventeen years...
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