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Ghost pots are truly tragic for shellfish. I have found/seen plenty of derelict/ghost pots diving. The last one I found had a dead flounder, dead crab, and two live rockfish inside it. I ripped open the mesh on the side of the pot so it would stop fishing. We found one last year up in a bay that had four legal Dungies in it. There are tens of thousands of ghost pots in the Bering Sea, and more added each year. It's estimated just in the Snow crab fishery, there are over 800 pots lost annually. In Chiniak Bay off Kodiak, there were almost 200 Ghost pots, which equated to a pot every 50 feet. Rediculous. This year I'm going north to dive in a few crab bays to locate and salvage ghoste dungy pots. Helping the environment, and perhaps making a couple bucks for myself!
Is this do to escape hatch not working,cotton thread not roting? The problem I see most is light pots with to much float moveing pots to deeper water with wave action untill float sinks.
Now left only to be a turd in the forrest and the circle will be complete.Use me as I have used you
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