This acts as a 'lobsterpot' containing the insect until the trap is checked.
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It is like alobsterpot—easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.
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In 2005 divers trying to free alobsterpotdiscovered a large anchor and cannons offshore.
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The peristome, which is up to 20 mm wide, is expanded, incurved, and internally flattened, forming an entrance corridor similar to alobsterpot.
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Whatever their origin, the helical shape of thelobsterpotis an adaptation that displays as much trapping surface as possible in all directions when buried in moss.
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Is the method to put down a line of lobster pots, or what?
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In that area there are 5,000 lobster pots and all kinds of gill nets.
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Each fisherman has his own lobster pots which are labelled.
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They have caused considerable damage to lobster pots and fishermen's nets.
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To compensate, fishermen will set more lobster pots and stocks will become further depleted.
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Lobster pots and fishing nets were damaged before we were able to stop this activity in the last few days.
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I understand that there have been some cases of late in which frogmen have gone under the surface of the sea and removed the catch from lobster pots.
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It is designed to help every type of inshore fisherman, from the boy with the lobster pots to the inshore fisherman who is prepared to do all-the-year-round fishing.
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In some areas where coastal protection work must be carried out, it will be found that fishermen are working there with fixed gear such as lobster pots.
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In another place it was rather suggested that the line would be drawn on a map, not by putting in the lobster pots or buoys, but by a cartological division.
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