Crab traps
How long does it take?
About 1-2 hours
Who is it for?
Materials:
About 1-2 hours
Who is it for?
- School groups, youth groups
- Up to 20 students
- 6-14 years old. Activities must be flexible depending on age group.
Materials:
- Monitoring sheet (day, water temp, location, weight, size, number, species, time, comments)
- Pencils
- Thermometer
- Accurate scale
- Large bucket
- Crab traps (should be put in water 2 days before activity)
- Measuring tools
- One ruler for photos
- One precise ruler for measurements
Download the protocol and monitoring sheet here ->
Protocol:
1. What are we doing today? Why? (10 minutes)
2. Record conditions (temperature, water temperature, weather)
3. Record GPS location of each trap
4. Fill bucket with sea water to store Atlantic rock crabs
5. Establishing work stations and roles
animal. Release non-invasive species.
7. Retrospective: what did we learn today? (5 minutes)
1. What are we doing today? Why? (10 minutes)
2. Record conditions (temperature, water temperature, weather)
3. Record GPS location of each trap
4. Fill bucket with sea water to store Atlantic rock crabs
5. Establishing work stations and roles
- Monitoring sheet writing
- Taking photos with ruler
- Determining species and sex if possible
- Measuring catch
- Weighing catch
animal. Release non-invasive species.
7. Retrospective: what did we learn today? (5 minutes)
- What species did we catch today?
- Are any species invasive?
- What did we learn?
Monitoring sheet (download above for better quality)
