 And Don Hamilton with the Oregon Department of Transportation says they're working with state police to try and figure out a way to discourage the vandalism. July is recreational crab season, and each year 12,000 crab pots are lost in Puget Sound. That results in the capture of 180,000 Dungeness crabs with no one to harvest them. Elisa Dawson from Snohomish County says there's a few ways to prevent losing those pots.