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Bowlfrogg
10-01-2009, 08:56 AM
Lobster hoop nets

Newly created devices are making hoop nets more efficient and allowing them to fish like traps, says the Fish and Game. These new nets consist of an added upper and lower metal loop.

Wardens in the field are reporting that when these new devicesare added to the net, they are in fact creating traps, which is against the recreational Fish and Game Code. Lobster report cards from last year show that the new nets are catching twice as many lobsters as the old nets.

Trapping is not permitted, and unless the wording is changed to permit recreational use of traps, the department is obliged to make sure lobster fishermen use legal hoop nets. A recommendation of wording has been sent to the commission for approval. Until then, it means that wardens can or will issue citations to the fishermen fishing with the new nets if that particular warden deems the net to be a trap.(Another can of worms opens!)