I would love to raise funds for 3-4 one day sting operations... PSA, CCA and individual donors (you) could contribute to pay the overtime for the WDFW/appropriate authorities and we'd have some opportunity to actually catch some of these pot/crab theives. I bet a few well publicized stings would get some people to think twice.

My take is that the VAST majority of crabbing done (commercial, tribal for certain) is done in unattended pots, I'm not clear why we should surrender that right unless all the other user groups did too.