NC Diamondback Terrapin Conservation Network

 

Crap Traps vs. Terrapins - Page under development: June 2008

 

 

 

 

NOAA, Tortoise Reserve, NC Audubon Society Derelect Trap Removal Program

 

 

 

 

"Why I Don’t Like Crab Pots" by Bob Palmatier

 

 

NC Regulations regarding fishing gear & turtles

 

 

Pender County, NC

 

 

By-catch species reported from ghost crab pots in North Carolina and other Central Atlantic States

 

 

 

 

Pender County, NC

 

 

"As the weather becomes cooler, the hunter takes large quantities of brush and makes a fire over the lace where he knows the terrapins are buried. The terrapin imagine that spring has come, and crawl out to be captured."
Ingraham on Tidewater Maryland