FOGHORN: A PLACE TO SOUND OFF A bitter crab harvest short-lived

So sweet it is, the rich taste of Dungeness crab. I’m sure a few of you have enjoyed it over the holiday. I would have enjoyed it as well, had all three of my pots not disappeared.

With precautionary measures such as weighted traps, 100 feet of marked leaded line, careful depth placement of the traps, perhaps my crab traps would stay put. Alas, they are gone, ALL of them.

I like to believe it was the moon and the stars lining appropriately enough to teach me a hard lesson about setting pots in heavy tide, but with said precautions, my doubt ensues. Could it possibly be an unscrupulous act of another? Blaspheme! Would someone actually do such a thing? My name and phone number are on them. I just bought those pots. Never once had I yet pulled them; and they’re gone. Need I lose faith in humanity?

As unsettling as it sounds, I can see why some folks celebrate their Second Amendment rights, or at least the common law extended thereof. Without further digression, my moral conscience speaks to all those tempted by an easy pickoff, poach, or plunder. Let those temptations be, for the only true temptress is the sea; if she doesn’t take you, she’s sure to take your crab pots.

For dinner tonight, we’re settling with seaweed and barnacles.

T. Campbell

Hansville

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