The soaking time of commercial scale crab pot operations was quite short (3-11 hrs)
due to the fishermen had to share the fishing ground with the trawlers. The trends of CPUE
increased since the pot was not reach the saturation yet (Miller, 1979b; Fogarty and Addison,
1997). Retrieving operation method may effect the CPUE, by start retrieving from the last
deployed pot showed the better CPUE than starting from the first deployed, possibly the
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starting from the last pot can give longer soaking time particularly pots that were deployed
from the beginning. For confirming the effect of escape soaking time on CPUE, extensive
comparative with the longer soaking time experiment will be required.