Saw a couple dozen crab pots bolted to the ground with rebar today at Demetre park next to the signs that warn of an obstruction. Just wondering what they are for. They are somewhat covered in oysters.
Oyster habitat I think
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Narc, I looked at that site and didn’t see Milton Peter Demetre park listed as a oyster restoration site. Also in most of the pics on that site, they seem to use bags of oyster shells, not crab traps (oyster bags are obviously more effective). It seems a little weird to me to have basically fish traps mounted to the bottom of the harbor and yet pinfish traps are illegal in sc.
If you want to see some creative oyster habitat, take a tour of the creeks around Seewee Bay at low tide.
If it will sink and catch oyster spawn, they’ve got it out there, including crab traps, chain link fencing, and all sorts of pipes.
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That’s my families park, my dad donated that land to the city of Charleston for a park.
DNR is studying abandoned crab traps (secured closed) as oyster habitat.
http://www.estuaries.org/pdf/2012conference/room14/session9/Kingsley-Smith_RAE_2012_pres.pdf
Ahh thanks sublime. Maybe my eyes deceived me, but I thought some of those traps actually had openings that weren’t closed. Perhaps they were closed and I just didn’t look hard enough.