Commercial Dungeness Crab and Prawn Traps

Our traps are in use by Canadian and US fishermen along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska and now successfully fishing the waters off the Hawaiian Islands. These intense fisheries demand well made and highly productive traps. Our commercial prawn traps are utilized primarily for spot prawns (pandalus platycerous). All sizes and styles are proven producers. Preferences are often determined by local fishing conditions, vessel size and regulations. We offer a wide range of commercial crab traps from 30″ – 43″ diameter.  Weights range from 20 – 120 pounds per trap.

Crab Frames are made from either mild steel (rubber wrapped), stainless steel or a combination of both materials. Standard crab traps are built with two rigid (welded in) or soft tunnels. We also supply traps with 3 or 4 tunnels. Fisheries in different regions sometimes require special tunnel and trigger configurations. Your preference or design can be incorporated to provide custom traps to your specifications. All web is hand twisted stainless steel wire. Prawn Frame material can be mild steel (plastic dipped) or stainless steel. Additional weight can be provided with a heavier bottom ring or a double bottom ring. Tunnel rings are standard 3″ diameter. They are woven into the web and aligned with the bait cup with rubber banding. Web comes in 3 different web sizes depending on your fishing location and sewed to the frame with chafing rope top and bottom. A bottom drawstring allows for quick opening of the traps and easy access to the suspended bait cup. Tapered design allows for tight stacking in transit. Most traps come complete with a braided poly bridle and 5/16″ or 3/8″ stainless snaps.

See the fishing accessory page for bait, bait cups, snaps and ground line.