Mississippi set to clean up and recycle unused crab traps
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BILOXI, Miss. (AP) The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources says volunteers will remove unused crab traps from state waters early next year.
The department says the cleanup is for waters within a half mile (.8 kilometer) of Deer Island and the mainland shoreline from the Alabama/Mississippi border to the Mississippi/Louisiana border.
From Jan. 21-27, all commercial and recreational crab fishermen must remove their own traps from closure areas in Mississippi waters. The department said it is illegal to remove traps licensed to another person outside the approved trap removal dates.