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  2. File:Blue Crab Pot, Trap .jpg - Wikipedia

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  3. Trotline - Wikipedia

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    Crabs on a trotline are not hooked, they are simply netted by the waterman at the surface, with the workboat moving slowly enough through the water that the crab does not discern movement as it eats the bait. The crab having been netted at the surface, the trotline moves back to or toward the bottom with the same bait intact to attract another ...

  4. Crab lining - Wikipedia

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    A woman crab lining in Brofjorden, Sweden. Crab lining (or crabbing [1]) is a handlining technique used to catch crabs. A piece of bait, normally the neck or leg of a chicken, is tied to one end with a weight in order to keep it from floating. The line is then cast by hand to an area approximately five to ten feet from where it is being cast.

  5. More than 8,000 pounds of abandoned crab traps pulled from ...

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    Specifically, Baldrica and her two crewmates aboard the Nauti Girl returned to land with a tournament-winning 30 stone crab and blue crab traps, each abandoned, maybe for years, in the ...

  6. Beaufort’s cherished blue crab is ‘mean as hell.’ But ...

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    Working on water outweighs pitfalls. Strategically located crab pots on the muddy creek bottoms, stuffed with smelly bait fish, trap the 6-legged crabs who also have rear swimming legs that look ...

  7. Trapping - Wikipedia

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    The trap features a chain with a swivel snap at one end and a ring at the other; the spikes on its jaws point inward. Traps of this kind were commonly used for black bear trapping and were set with clamps (these types are not used any more) Setting and triggering a "gin" or foothold trap, demonstrated at the Black Country Living Museum

  8. Fish trap - Wikipedia

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    A fish trap is a trap used for catching fish and other aquatic animals of value. Fish traps include fishing weirs, cage traps, fish wheels and some fishing net rigs such as fyke nets. [1] The use of traps are culturally almost universal around the world and seem to have been independently invented many times.

  9. Crab fisheries - Wikipedia

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    Portunus pelagicus (known as flower crabs, blue crabs, blue swimmer crabs, blue manna crabs or sand crabs) is a large crab found in the intertidal estuaries of the Indian and Pacific Oceans (Asian coasts) and the Middle-Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The name flower crab is used in east Asian countries while the latter names are used ...