SNOW CRAB TRAP

SNOW CRAB TRAP

Snow crab trap or crab pot built to your own specifications. We will build your snow crab trap according to your way of fishing and adapted to your fishing place. We assemble them according to the height, weight and mesh size required. You will be able to choose the color of the crab netting, the cones and also your twine. We manufacture crab pot for all of the Gaspé Peninsula, the Magdalen Islands, the North Shore, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

The Atlantic variety of snow crab occurs in the northeastern Atlantic, near the west coast of Greenland and south to the Gulf of Maine. Snow crabs prefer cold water temperatures and occur at a wide range of depths, from 20 to 2000 metres, most often on sandy or muddy bottoms. This is the reason why you should use snow crab pot made by Les Industries Fipec inc.

Crab meat is used in many culinary recipes around the world, prized for its mild, delicate and sweet taste. Crab meat is low in fat and contains about 82 kcal per 35 g.

THE FISHERIES

The snow crab fishery in Eastern Canada began in 1960. At first as by-catch by groundfish dredgers near Gaspé, Quebec. Its development was slow until the 1980s. Then, with the help of snow crab traps, it expanded rapidly and became one of the largest fisheries in the country, in terms of quantity and value of landings. On the Scotian Shelf, the snow crab fishery has been in existence since the early 1970s, when it produced landings of about 1,000 t.

After reaching 1,500 t in 1979, these landings dropped considerably in the mid-1980s. A strong recruitment wave to the fishery was observed in 1986. Total landings reached unprecedented highs of about 10,000 t each year in the early 2000s. Females are not commercially valuable because of their smaller size. This helps to protect them from the dangers of human exploitation and to protect their reproductive capacity.

SNOW CRAB TRAP

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