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Crabs, eels, turtles & star fish from National Library of Medicine uploaded June 2019
Running a mile long crab line - Panacea from Florida Memory uploaded January 2015
Constantine Nichols holding a crab - Apalachicola from Florida Memory uploaded August 2014
Ernest Hamilton's stone crab store - Chokoloskee Island from Florida Memory uploaded August 2014
Captain Bill Gray collecting crabs and other marine specimens - Dinner Key from Florida Memory uploaded April 2014
Children admiring a crab - San Pablo Creek from Florida Memory uploaded April 2014
Young woman holding a crab - Daytona Beach from Florida Memory uploaded April 2014
Unidentified picking crabs at the Havana Canning Company in Havana, Florida from Florida Memory uploaded February 2014
College of William and Mary from Cornell University Library uploaded July 2009
Joseph Darren Whiddon dumping blue crabs into a steam basket: Steinhatchee, Florida from Florida Memory uploaded March 2009
J. D. Larkin & Co. (Manufacturers) from Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections uploaded December 2008
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Joseph Darren Whiddon dumping blue crabs into a steam basket: Steinhatchee, Florida
from Florida Memory
- olskoolkid07 said:
Running a mile long crab line - Panacea
from Florida Memory
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cowgirlupCath said:
Dinner for months!!
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Ed Dempsey said:
These "crab lines" were usually strung between two floats, anchored in place. The baits ( often cut up sections of eels, treated with rock salt to toughen them ) were tied or hooked onto the "trot line", between the two floats, at regular intervals. To harvest the catch, you just got your dip net handy and started going over the line hand over hand, moving the boat along as you did. The trick was to spot the crab before he spotted you. If you did, and he hung on, feeding, long enough, you scooped him up in the dip net. Some commercial crabbers use a roller on the side of the boat to run the trot line under low outboard motor power, like this photo shows.