Delaware Sea Grant Seeks Boater Volunteers For Locating Ghost Crab Pots And Removal
Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop
Everyone hates ghost crab pots, especially when you run over one. These abandoned or ghost crab pots destroy your props and lower units. They are detriment to wildlife, despite being mini reefs at times. I went on a ghost crab pot removal project a couple years ago with Delaware Sea Grant and the University of Delaware. It was eye opening to the amount of ghost crab pots around the inland bays.
If you want to help clean up the bays you need to check out this program. It would require you be here in January to help. The one cove near Dewey beach we removed ghost crab pots from had hundreds they marked days before.
DSG (Aug 20, 2021) …Delaware Sea Grant is hosting a FREE “Fish-Finders for Stewardship” workshop this September 17th and 18th. Where instructors from University of Delaware’s CSHEL and Blacklaser Learning will teach participants to use consumer grade side-imaging fish-finders for more than finding fish – namely for stewardship activities like finding derelict or ghost crab pots or recording data for habitat mapping.
The workshop is a two-part series with the first session taking place over zoom on September 17th and the second hands-on session taking place at the University of Delaware’s Lewes Campus on September 18th.
In session one, participants will be provided with an overview of side-imaging sonar technology and a variety of applications will be highlighted. It is appropriate for individuals that own or are thinking of purchasing a consumer grade side-imaging fish-finder (e.g models from Ray Marine, Hummingbird, Garmin, Lowrance).
Session two provides a hand-on opportunity for participants to practice skills aboard the University of Delaware Research Vessel Dogfish in Lewes, Delaware. It is optional and space limited, so participants that a) own a Humminbird side-imaging fish-finder and b) are interested in assisting with the Indian River Bay Derelict Crab Pot Round-Up this January will be given priority. Find the event page here and note that the registration deadline is September 10th.
Kate Fleming
Coastal Ecology Specialist
Delaware Sea Grant
University of Delaware
College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
Ghost Crab Pot Round Up Information
Ghost Crab Pot Round Up Day One
Delaware Sea Grant Seeks Boater Volunteers For Locating Ghost Crab Pots And Removal
2022 Derelict Crab Pot Round-Up Sign Ups In Indian River
Ninety Nine Ghost Crab Pots Out Of The Water
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Ghost crab pots being cleaned of mud and debris after all of the bay life is removed and catalogued. ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Ghost crab pots host a myriad of bay life, like mini reefs. These still need to be removed. ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Some ghost crab pots aren’t as old and filled with mud when removed. ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
The crews getting ready to head out and retrieve some of the hundreds of ghost crab pots marked around the Rehoboth bay hear Dewey Beach. ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Ghost crab posts piled up on the boat ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Dave Beebe used his oyster barge Sea Alice to help carry the ghost crab pots back to the marina. DNREC enforcement photo bomb ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Dave Beebe used his oyster barge Sea Alice to help carry the ghost crab pots back to the marina. DNREC enforcement photo bomb ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Ghost crab pots host a myriad of bay life, like mini reefs. These still need to be removed. ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Oyster cracker found in a ghost crab pot ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
juvenile tautog will make ghost crab pots home ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Angel wing found in a ghost crab pot The Angel Wing shell derives its common name from the wing like appearance of the shell. It is found in shallow parts of the north west Atlantic living in the seabed where it burrows through sand and mud to a depth of up to 3 feet. ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Dave Beebe used his oyster barge Sea Alice to help carry the ghost crab pots back to the marina. ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Some crab pots come out in chunks or pieces ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
grass shrimp ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Ghost crab pots were collected and then washed off at the boat ramp in Dewey beach. Each pot was catalogued and surveyed for the life it contained. ![ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Delaware Sea Grant volunteers and students pulling ghost crab pots out of Rehoboth Bay in 2019 ![Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, ghost crab pots, delaware sea grant, inland bays, Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop, sea alice, rehoboth bay oyster company]()
Fish Finders for Stewardship Workshop
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