PORT O’CONNOR — The sun was shining when Allan Berger and his wife, Brigid Berger, scanned the shorelines of Espiritu Santo Bay for deserted crab traps Monday morning.
A low tide helped expose a trap stuck in the mud, several hundred feet in front of their boat.
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