1.   An abandoned trotline is just as big a nuisance and eyesore as an abandoned crab trap, not to mention the danger caused by their dangling hooks.

2.   And I believe there are as many or more pounds of old trotlines in freshwater lakes than there are abandoned crab traps on the entire Texas coast.

3.   Commercial fishermen were too busy catching redfish and mullet to set crab traps.

4.   Dozens of crab traps are stacked outside.

5.   The crabber who works the area feeds the birds when he services his crab traps.

6.   The icing phenomenon is verified in one photograph where the crab traps look like giant ice cubes.

7.   The landlord later had Longo charged with stealing two crab traps.

8.   Too often, people steal from crab traps without considering it a crime, Burton said.

9.   Yet hands fly up when Van Buskirk asks for volunteers to stuff fish parts into the crab trap.

10.   The ITAR-Tass news agency said Monday that hundreds of crab traps set by Japanese poachers were confiscated and several Russian trawlers catching crab without licenses were stopped.