Crab'n Gear Escape Vents | 120 x 50mm Rectangle    

Escape Vents

Escape vents are an apparatus that are compulsory in commercial mud crab pots in Queensland, but their use in recreational pots is also encouraged. The vents enable sub-legal sized mud crabs and fish to escape the pot, making it easier for crabbers to sort their catch and reducing the risk of overcrowded crabs injuring each other.

Crab’n Gear TS5 pots that are available to Licensed Professional crabbers have the vents pre installed, with an oyster mesh pad underneath the vent to reduce rubbing. There are three different size vents that are legal in Queensland waters all of which must be attached to the bottom ring of the pot and are made from 3mm tumbled aluminium.