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A Test of BRDs and Escape Hatches in Commercial-Style Crab Traps

Mary Laun ('27) presented summer 2025 terrapin research at the fall 2025 undergraduate research symposium "A Test of BRDs and Escape Hatches in Commercial-Style Crab Traps" and at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation conference in Richmond, VA (Nov. 2025) "Terrapins trapped: blue crab catch and diamondback terrapin bycatch in modified and unmodified crab traps."

 Mary Laun ('27) holds a diamondback terrapin that was caught in a crabpot.

 

Francesca Twombly ’27, Jack Zamary ‘27, and Mary Luan '27 with crab pots outfitted with bycatch reduction devices.