trot line for sand crabs

[Lachie]

hey everyone i recently came across a video on youtube were these guys are running a trot line for crabs !!

does anybody know if this is legal in queensland ?

here is the video liunk
/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S45usp9jYro

[bootyinblue]

I would say not legal as its basically bait on a line, which is not described in the permissible fishing techniques for crabs.

It comes back to the old 'just cause its not listed there, doesnt mean you can do it' way of thinking.

[madmullet]

i think this is so wrong. having 100's and 100's of mtrs of rope out is not rite and half of thos crab he kept looked eligal as well

[dhess]

Its from the US. Probably legal there. But i agree it is a pretty gay way of crabbing.

[ellicat]

Of more concern than the crabbing method is that a kid with such an annoying twang has been allowed to remain on the audio.

[Guest]

illegal to the max!

[tiotony]

Looks way illegal cos they are going way over the 6 hooks on a line rule, even though those baits don't have hooks in them, its still a heck of a lot more than 6 baits in the water on the one line.

[graham7773]

I was curious about this so I googled it. Trotlines are legal for spanner crabs, why would they not be legal for sandies?

[Surfingant]

That kid is the reason euthanasia should be legalised.

[Gad]

I was curious about this so I googled it. Trotlines are legal for spanner crabs, why would they not be legal for sandies?

it`s all about where you are as to the definition a trotline... it is in fact a retrieving line that has their pots/traps attached.

Source: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/28_16067.htm

Commercial crabbers

Fishers operating in offshore (deeper) waters usually set their gear in 'trot lines' of about 10 pots per line. The trotline consists of pots attached to each other but with only a buoyed line at one end of the line.

The fisher usually checks them daily or on each rising tide, hauling them by hand-hydralic winch onto a boat, removing the catch, and then rebaiting and resetting them.

Spanner crabs

Commercial spanner crab fishers are required by law to use dillies - frames with netting stretched across them - no more than 1 metre square in size…..

Ten or 15 dillies are clipped to a trotline by a short rope at about 50 metre intervals. Each trotline is marked by a flagged buoy.