How much does the best crab trap cost? The crab traps in this review range from $10 to over $250. A small hand trap only costs ten bucks, allowing a crabber to purchase several traps to increase the ...

Blue crabs are abundant all along the Jersey coast, and some of the best bets for finding crabs are in tidal creeks and ...

Crab bait on the wing. Published: Oct. 27, 2008, 10:36 a.m. By . Bill Monroe | For The Oregonian/OregonLive; One of the biggest down sides to a dismal coastal fall chinook season such as is sadly ...

Anyone using a crab trap must have a validation stamp, which can be bought for $2.42, in addition to a fishing license. Crab traps, or crab pots, are constructed so that crabs lured in by bait cannot ...

The crab traps have a center area that’s designed to hold the bait and they have holes that allow smaller crabs to escape. You simply set the trap in the water near the shore or off a dock and ...

LEWES, Del. (AP) — Researchers announced Wednesday that a new bait alternative may help reduce the number of horseshoe crabs harvested to be used as bait. Female horseshoe crabs are considered ...

No one knows how many derelict crab traps sit in Texas bays, ... Drawn into a derelict trap by bait, crabs or fish or some other marine animal enter an abandoned trap for the easy meal.

Dolphins in Australia have learned how to snatch bait from crab traps—and now, researchers say they’ve captured the clever behavior on camera for the first time ever.

Quite appropriately, they’re known as “castable” crab traps, which sit flat on the river bottom, with bait (chicken legs are most popular) attached to the middle, then fold tightly when ...

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