The good work being done by the NW Straits Foundation. These are the same folks that fund our Marine Resources Committees in the Northern Sound. They finished the work on derelict nets last summer, and now are onto clearing out the derelict crab pots under the Sound. This is what the advancements in high tech like side scan sonar, have allowed us to accomplish. What it points to are more innovative ways to solve our environmental problems. Ways that we haven’t even dreamed of yet. Support the work of the NW Straits Foundation and donate to them if you can. http://www.nwstraitsfoundation.org
Abandoned or lost crab pots are an annual environmental challenge, one that the Northwest [Straits] Foundation faced yet again Tuesday. Aboard a boat near Everett on a windy and choppy morning, computers guided divers to spots with derelict crab pots on the floor of Puget Sound. Northwest [Straits] Foundation estimates that about 12,000 crab pots are lost each year. Sometimes that number climbs to 14,000. The pots keep fishing after they’ve cut loose from holds. Crab continue to pile in but then run out of food and eventually die. Around 180,000 harvestable crabs are lost to derelict pots each year. Alison Morrow reports. (KING)
http://www.king5.com/tech/science/environment/lost-crab-pots-cleared-from-puget-sound/327439073