Lost/Stolen cray pots and your gear ID
Submitted by terboz123 on Wed, 2011-12-07 17:02
Lads
quick question lost two pots this season, about the replace them but im quite nevous about resetting them due to my lost pots and the gear ID numbers. If they were stolen hopefully the floats have been replaced.
So is there some where to report to that i have missing cray pots, got no idea where they are and i am re setting two new ones with that same gear ID number?
Brett
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Good question i reckon you
Good question i reckon you will be OK tho,,your old ones would probally been rebirthed as this time of year folks just go out and put they own rope and float ID's on cray pots they find , thats how it used to be done but i have to admit i have not been cray fishing for years and don't know the current rules and regs do the cray pots themselves have to have ID's on these days or just the floats ?
Tomcat
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Pots
Have not bothered for years but I always branded the pot in several spots
meglodon
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report the theft/loss to fisheries
report the theft/loss to fisheries to cover your own backside just incase they turn up some were near where you are going to set your new pots
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maybe paint your floats to
maybe paint your floats to resemble pro pots and set them nearby to pros and they will have the respect to leave them alone and their presence will help deter these mongrels.....
and yeah, quik call to fisheries telling them where they went missing from, will help hopefully increase fisheries presence ....
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smash
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difficult question
and many commercial cray fishers have been done over it. Basically it was the case that it was a warning/black mark then prosecution/pot forfit.
It was always a hassle as a fisherman cos when Fisheries make a suprize inspection and ride along for the day, the patrol boat follows and does big loops around looking for ones being (deliberately?) left behind.
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I had a pot out the back of
I had a pot out the back of the Five fathom bank that was more used as a marker than anything. Never been pulled I just dive on it. Went out today and it was missing. Kitted up and into the water and I found the weight but no pot. Now I figured I had this secured pretty well and the pot was tucked into a cave (i know as I placed it there when diving) but obviously the swell had dislodged the pot and weight came out.
Was a bit of a reminder to me that the "pot thieves" are not always pot thieves. If i hadnt been able to dive on it i would have assumed someone stole it.
terboz123
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I just want to cover my
I just want to cover my backside fromgetting stung and the fines etc etc..... Might call and send an email in for paper trail. I read the fines you can get pretty nasty!
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Inspection
Fisheries usually do a run up the coast after the end of the season and cut the floats off any pots still in the water but they still miss quite a few.
If your other ones were still about they would be easy recognisable by the amount of slime and weed on them, this would be noted by fisheries if they were going to ping you for over potting so I wouldn't worry about them. They are gone forever as far as you are concerned.
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Isn't that a rather irresponsible act
by Fisheries. Cutting the floats off won't stop the pot 'fishing'.
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Crays will leave a pot once
Crays will leave a pot once there is no bait left in them. It's not like the kingy traps over east that just keep filling up
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Well I didn't know that
I always thought that once a cray was in the pot it couldn't get out. Thanks for clearing that up. So fisheries are only polluting the ocean floor with rubbish then. That's much better. Why don't they just pull them up?
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Rot
Leave a wooden pot in the water for over 18months and it will fall to bits as the wood rots, placcy pots eventually chafe through the rope and end up on the beach in bits.
As said above , once the bait is all gone the crays soon find their way out much to the disgust of pros when the use of hide and hocks were banned.