July 18, 2023 — Abandoned “ghost traps” scattered in South Florida’s coastal waters keep doing their lethal work, sometimes for years, ensnaring and often killing lobsters, stone crabs and other marine life.
Crews of ghost trap busters hit the waters of Biscayne Bay on Sunday to do something about a problem that haunts the environment and damages valuable fisheries.
Among them was Spencer Crowley, who, one by one, handed off barnacle-laden, corroded lobster traps to his three children on a Matheson Hammock Park dock at an event billed as Miami’s inaugural “Ghost Trap Rodeo.”
The trio — made up of Ava, 14, who proclaims herself the strongest despite being the smallest, and 15-year-old twins Jackson and Ella — scurried away to weigh the first set of rotten traps they’d rounded up that morning with their father.
“102 pounds!” Jackson exclaimed.
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