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crabbersRase overpowered the feisty
Crabbers in Game 6, but Crisfield came close to winning it all.
Commercial
crabbers have plenty to crab about, and many of those concerns are posed on the Blue Crab Discussion and Forum, a website devoted to discussion.
Thus the triumphant
Crabbers returned without ownership over their own destiny.
Recreational
crabbers - anyone from the kid who ties a chicken neck to a line at the end of a dock to the adult who feeds a family with a "sport" crab catch - remove an estimated 11 million to 40 million pounds of crabs yearly just from Maryland's portion of the bay.
The horror stories that
crabbers tell are laced with ice, with freezing spray that can coat everything on the boat and turn a stack of crab pots into a slippery monolith whose added weight throws off the boat's stability and can cause her to flip.
Nowadays, the traps are usually plastic, though some
crabbers still use wooden ones.
Oyster growers,
crabbers and fishermen have reported losses in the millions related to the strange events.
Commercial
crabber and Seminole resident Doug Johnston has been crabbing for 32 years in the St.
It would have "skyrocketed by now," commission member and Charleston
crabber Rick Lillienthal said.
One commercial
crabber helped us out immensely by tagging over 1,000 tripletail in four years, and now the program has grown and this year we had really good growth in the number of anglers participating in the north central Gulf.
Skinner thinks maybe the shooter took aim at him not because he mistook the
crabber for a cop, as is the running police theory, but to cause a ruckus.
As police searched through Sunday night, a
crabber shining a spotlight on his pots in the predawn hours unwittingly found the gunman - when the man shot at the fisherman from shore.
Even though there's a deal in place, Charleston
crabber Jeff Reeves said he's frustrated by the season's late start.
Crabbers should ensure their pots have enough rope attached to the float so they are not lost in strong tidal currents.
