Strange pots in tassy

 Anyone know the story about these pots my oldies saw at the harbour on their recent trip to Tasmania. Look a lot different than ours.

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Sun, 2018-11-25 16:19

Looks like they may be king crab pots. 

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Thanks dale

Sun, 2018-11-25 18:06

 I had no clue.

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???

Sun, 2018-11-25 19:05

 How do they keep the crabs in when they are upside down like that?? 

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I was in tassie a few months back

Sun, 2018-11-25 19:51

They still run the old school beehive style cray pots. (Which were the best IMO).

Bloody nice part of the world, but fark me it’s cold!! 

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 Most likely crab pots as

Sun, 2018-11-25 21:35

 Most likely crab pots as dale suggested otherwise they'd be running stainless wire...

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Thanks guys

Mon, 2018-11-26 06:11

Not sure why pics upside down it was ok on my phone. Yeah scano they said it was bloody cold.

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 They dont call us the land

Mon, 2018-11-26 16:30

 They dont call us the land down under for nothing. 

I would have called them to be crab pots . Seen similar on tv

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Yep, they’re crab pots, they

Mon, 2018-11-26 18:21

Yep, they’re crab pots, they have quite a thriving crab fishery down in Tassie. Get a good feed off those king crabs.

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 You do Doc but the

Tue, 2018-11-27 06:33

 You do Doc but the meat/shell percentage is much lower than crays...

 

From memory you get about 50% meat in a cray but the KIngs you are down between 20-30% which on a per kg basis means one very expensive feed...

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Yes true, but more meaty than

Wed, 2018-11-28 21:06

Yes true, but more meaty than the blue crabs 

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I found that prawn mesh actually caught well when used on steel beehive shaped pots, better known as "steelies" but it had to be cod end, not wing. Don't know why, could only guess it was the thicker mesh made them fell more enclosed and safer. In general, steelies didn't catch anywhere near as good as batten pots--their only advantage was their ability to withstand swell, when heavily ballasted. I had a few for a while in the eighties, just used to keep chucking them at the beach on short ropes, and with bobber floats on the strop to minimise rope snags. Deckies usually hated them, hard to tie in well with a stack of batten pots, and an absolute bastard to get wobbies out of. Pulled one with SIX wobbies in it, once, down near Lucky Bay. It was like undoing a tangle, trying to grab a tail without getting bitten by another one.