All of this problem about ghosts crab pots wasn't a problem until 2008 when vmrc closed crab dredging the dredgers always kept the bay clean of ghost crab pots and other marine debris plus stirred poison from the susquehanna river from settling in the bottom. Over 100 years of crab dredging only targeting adult mature crabs in witch 30 percent of will die in cold weather plus keep the bay clean and would not cost anything seems like it would be time to reconsider this law but it's a political closure and not a scientific one
All of this problem about ghosts crab pots wasn't a problem until 2008 when vmrc closed crab dredging the dredgers always kept the bay clean of ghost crab pots and other marine debris plus stirred poison from the susquehanna river from settling in the bottom. Over 100 years of crab dredging only targeting adult mature crabs in witch 30 percent of will die in cold weather plus keep the bay clean and would not cost anything seems like it would be time to reconsider this law but it's a political closure and not a scientific one