How long does it take?
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 ->

crab_fishing_protocol.pdf
File Size:	1070 kb
File Type:	pdf

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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

• Monitoring sheet writing
• Taking photos with ruler
• Determining species and sex if possible
• Measuring catch
• Weighing catch

    6. Get traps up one by one and go through the workstations for each
        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?

    8. Invasive crab (Atlantic rock crab) distribution between participants

Monitoring sheet (download above for better quality)