Texas Fauna Project

Atlantic Blue Crab

Ronnie Luster is an insurance broker by profession, but has spent decades dove hunting and saltwater fishing. Involved in the formation of the Coastal Conservation Association, he was deeply engaged in the effort to remove derelict crab traps left behind in Texas bays. Here he tells how crab traps were often built in violation of state law, in ways that trapped small crabs, finfish and turtles, many of which died when the traps were abandoned.