Over all years, collected debris was standardized to equate all material into Trap Equivalency Units (TEUs) to facilitate comparison by day, year, and contractor (Table 1). BNP staff developed TEUs realizing that most trap debris recovered would not be in the form of whole, intact lobster traps. TEUs provided a metric for calculating the total trap associated debris removed in a single unit of measure. For each year, mean TEUs removed per day were plotted against days of removal effort and analyzed using simple linear regression. A single-factor ANOVA (factor: year), followed by Tukey’s post-hoc tests, were used to evaluate yearly differences in mean TEUs removed per day. Contractor differences in mean TEUs removed per day were compared using a Student’s unpaired two-tailed t test, assuming equal variance. TEU data was log10-transformed to improve normality and statistical analyses were conducted using JMP 9.0.