Rot Cord On Prawn Traps

[CR Bill]

Has anyone installed Rot Cord on their meshed commercial style prawn traps as per the new regulations? Would welcome any suggestions as to a reasonable way to do this.

 

[Srthomas75]

I’m just looking into this myself as well. Originally I thought you could add a section of rot cord to the bungee cord hook but I’m not sure if that would be considered legal as it’s on the bottom of the trap.

 

[CR Bill]

I have done mine- Ladner style traps. I made mine triangular in shape on the top of the trap, following the natural alignment of the mesh rather than trying to cut a rectangle or square into it. Just made more sense to do it that way.

 

[Srthomas75]

I have done mine- Ladner style traps. I made mine triangular in shape on the top of the trap, following the natural alignment of the mesh rather than trying to cut a rectangle or square into it. Just made more sense to do it that way.

Thanks for the picture. Nice stitch work. I’m having trouble finding larger diameter rot cord so far.

 

[Fixit]

$570 ticket last week for no rot cord. I thought it was just a crab trap thing. best to get it figured out to be compliant

 

[Srthomas75]

$570 ticket last week for no rot cord. I thought it was just a crab trap thing. best to get it figured out to be compliant

Ouch. I was unaware of it on prawn traps myself until someone mentioned it recently.

 

[Fixit]

and that was us getting off easy. could have been 570 per trap (x4).... kind of o shipty ticket IMO. its not like we were harvesting yelloweye or over our limit on prawns, or harpooning baby dolphins..

 

[tubber]

I have done mine- Ladner style traps. I made mine triangular in shape on the top of the trap, following the natural alignment of the mesh rather than trying to cut a rectangle or square into it. Just made more sense to do it that way.

I haven't done mine yet, but my plan is to also cut a triangular flap in the top, but then lace it back together with one strand of cotton twine.

 

[Fixit]

the way I read it, a triangle is not an acceptable shape. square or rectangle only