While I would never advocate poaching it's sounding like the recreational fishers need to just go out and soak pots en mass state wide on a particular Saturday right next to the commercial and tribal pots during our winter/spring closure as a protest. Dump the crab back and let em write tickets. In fact report back the number of legal sized males caught and released on that one day.
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