Prawn traps in howe sound

[Fixit]

as we all know, howe sound is closed for prawning right now.

hypothetical situation: you see a float in 700 feet of water with a name and phone number on it, it apears to be floating the traps, bouys are half submerged. you phone the number and there is no answer.



what do you do?

 

[RageWelding]

Pull them and try to call the owner later and leave a message. The current could have theoreticaly dragged them into the sound from area 29.

 

[trophywife]

pull em... make contact.. if no response, call it lost and found and recycled

 

[ryanb]

Don't assume anything untoward.. Could have easily floated from an open area. Return them if you're a good samaritan, steal them if you're a jerk. If you can't get ahold of the owner consider them your new traps.

 

[wildthing]

problem with howe sound is the amount of floating wood
if a log drags your gear or even the tugs or barges especially at night
as i see prob more traffic at night coming in and out the sound

whats the guys number if there is any 604-740// 741 //886 //885
that's numbers for sunshine coast

 

[Fixit]

i hadn't considered they coulda floated from area 29

its a west van phone number...
ill try to contact them again

 

[happy hooker]

Ran my boat up to Powell River for a few day vacation with the family and some friends, stayed at Grief Pt marina/ hotel. Dropped a few crab traps, did alright. On the last morning went to grab my traps and could not find one of them,it was gone. Anyways I live in the Okanagan and about a week later a guy calls me and says I have your crab trap. I ask him where he found it? He picked it up near Squamish floating in Howe sound. I guess it must have got dragged by a logboom cause thats a long way. So yes traps can drift/ be dragged a long way.

 

[Captain PartyMarty]

Two years ago I droped a crab trap between the two fraser arms. It was gone when I came back to check it. Got a call a week later a guy found near thrasher rock. They definitely can float a long way in a few days

 

[dmurph]

I have watched my floats get picked up by a log boom as I was trolling of of cowan pt. It was a little sketchy getting them back but we did it.

 

[bigdogeh]

found a trap that was unnamed floating in 1000' in the strait between bella coola and bella bella. no name on it and had been floating for quite awhile I assume from the growth on it. big black heavy plastic ball so didn't stand out very well. fished the same ball and trap on the north end of dundas island a year later. lost the trap and got a call a few months later (I had my name on it) from a guy up in ketchikan alaska. it had drifted into their harbour. told him thxs for calling and that he could keep it if he wanted. so he did...