The blue crab fishery in the Apalachicola Bay reopens on Friday. Fishing for blue crabs with traps has been stopped since last week so that derelict crab traps could be removed from the bay. The blue crab closure extended from the Apalachicola Bay to the Florida/ Alabama line.
This was the first year of a now annual 10 day closure created as a way to remove abandoned blue crab traps from the Apalachicola Bay. State officials say the number of abandoned crab traps has to be controlled because those traps continue to trap crabs and fish even when they are not maintained. They can also damage sensitive habitats and pose navigational hazards to boaters.
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