Since 2001, volunteers and TPWD staff have scooped up almost 44,000 derelict traps, saving an estimated 720,000 blue crabs. The Texas legislature authorized TPWD to create the Annual Crab Trap ...

Louisiana agents cited two crabbers, Adam Foret and Kevin Hebert, for operating in a closed area and license violations.

But one of the greatest threats of all is needless drownings in blue crab traps. Lured in by bait, terrapins can’t escape to the surface to breathe. Just one lost or abandoned trap can kill dozens of ...

These estuaries are also home to blue crabs, which are trapped in crab pots. Crab pots trap and drown imperiled diamondback terrapins, who have suffered population declines of 75% across most of their ...

“A fleet of active blue crab pots is capable of steadily ... to follow other states and take basic steps to require that crab traps don’t kill even more of these imperiled turtles.” ...