Tahoe Lobster Co. owner Fred Jackson says someone's been stealing his traps out of Lake Tahoe ever since he launched Tahoe's first commercial crawfish harvest operation last year.

Theft of crabs and crawfish, tending crab traps during illegal hours and selling fish caught recreationally brings a $400 to $950 fine and up to 120 days in jail for each offense. Theft and ...

Once your traps are set, it’s time to start catching! The river is going to carry the smell of your bait downstream, and the crawfish will come out of hiding in search of the food.

Trapping crawfish is a lot of work, so I joined son Alan Goulding for his usual morning harvest on a small six foot boat. There are rows of 400-500 traps in the marshes.

The harvesting arm, which was built to one-third the scale of a commercial crawfish trap, is controlled by a Playstation 4 controller. It directs the arm to grab the trap, dump, rebait, and place ...

Frugé takes Geneen out into the fields to empty the crawfish traps into a manual pushboat. From there, the crawfish are added to conveyer belt where they’re washed and sorted.

Philip Emanuel looks over his catch after checking some of the traps at his crawfish ponds located on family land in Breaux Bridge on Thursday, January 7, 2021.

Tahoe Lobster Co. owner Fred Jackson says someone’s been stealing his traps ever since he launched Tahoe’s first commercial crawfish harvest operation last year. Since fall, 160 traps have ...