Wire Mesh Conch Traps

Worm-proof and half the on deck weight of your old wood conch trap.

Say good-bye to the worms eating up your wooden conch traps and having to use strong and potentially dangerous chemicals to dip your gear every season.

Available in single conch trap configuration (pictured above) and trawl conch traps (below).   Give us a call to spec out your new lighter worm proof conch pots

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Call Bob or Myron at

 (508) 997-4787

                                     

  Ketcham Conch Pots for the trawl fisherman.  Top entry at one end of the conch trap allows you to use a conventional bridal and haul these traps in strings.  Pictured trap is our time tested standard setup.  Dimensions are 30 x 21 x 7½, includes PT or "jungle-board" runners depending on availability, four high density pavers for ballast and a belly band

Conch trap for the boat that fishes singles. The trap is 24 x 24 x 7½, a quad ballast setup, runners, and a belly band.  This design has been refined over many seasons and will put the conchs in your boat.

 

Ketcham Traps the first supplier to bring vinyl clad lobster traps in 1975 to the fishery that really worked in the real world of commercial fishing now leads the industry again with the first worm-proof wire mesh conch traps that really fish. 

Call Bob or Myron for more info

(508) 997-4787

Aquaculture Businesses

Ketcham's offers a scaled down version to collect the moon snails around the area of your grant.  Please contact us for details and your requirements as to the minimum sized critters you need to eliminate

At Sea Photos thanks to Capt Tom Turner Martha's Vineyard,  Mass