A crab enters and stays trapped until the trap is checked. Most crab trapping is a commercial enterprise, but recreational crab trapping is prevalent in many coastal communities and resorts.

The classic blue crab pot at half the size, the American Blue Claw ½ Crab Trap Kit is great for short soaks with several traps. Instead of one large pot deployed at one location, the half-size ...

New this season, crab traps used to take either Dungeness crab or rock crab can’t be used or deployed in state waters from Oct. 29 until the Dungeness crab fishery opens at 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 5.

Crab trap floats found on beaches can be identified by their markings. Float colors and numbering formats can sometimes indicate their origin. Beachcombers walking along the Texas coast often find ...

Crab traps, or crab pots, are constructed so that crabs lured in by bait cannot exit. The traps are dropped, marked with buoys, and left for up to several days.

Crabbers Cody Diefeubach and Butch Lind stack their crab traps on a trailer in St. Bernard Parish as they preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Issac on Aug. 27. (Photo by NOLA.com | Times ...

Officials are now enforcing a state law passed last year to protect the blue crab population. But some local fishermen think ...

During crab trap removal efforts, volunteers have found derelict traps more than a decade old but still effectively fishing. And that long-term effectiveness, even when not baited by a human, make ...

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

Grant Bundy, Jr., pulls up what he thought was a crab trap from his father's flooded ramp after Hurricane Ida at Bundy's Seafood in Lafitte, La., Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021.

The winning crew pulled 30 crab traps from in and around Tampa Bay in roughly five hours. The 3-person team's total haul weighed in at more than 900 pounds of traps.

For the past 23 years, volunteers have been an essential part of cleaning up crab traps along the Texas coast, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said. Since 2001, volunteers and TPWD staff ...