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Accept the craziness of San Diego lobster fisherman
I live in the Pacific Northwest so we often have crab traps, not lobster traps on the Oregon/Washington Coast. I've been a diver since summer, 1966 (Chu Lai, Viet Nam), and I have never seen a diver take a crab from a trap. I'm saddened to learn Mr. Medak observed that, but there are lowlifes and lazy parasites in almost every demographic. As divers, we have the mobility and the arms-length access to reach into the jetties or between the rocks and take our own; however, if a diver catches Dungeness crab and a nearby crabber comes up with an empty trap, you can see the grounds for suspicion and presupposition. If a personal standard or code of conduct isn't sufficient to keep a diver from stealing lobster or crab from traps, peer pressure should prevent such pilferage. We operate underwater; I am often accused by fishermen of "scaring the fish away", and that evidences ignorance because rockfish and other marine life are not concerned with my approach or presence. They swim around me. They're in their 3-dimensional element. But a fisherman who has caught nothing will assume the diver's presence or interference is the problem. The best I can do is invite them to join us so they can see how it works, but we can reach what we want without having to steal from traps. If we're catching crab/lobster and they're not, I'd say it's time to qualify as a diver and submerge with us to improve their catch. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2015/a…— April 8, 2015 6:24 p.m.