On December 9th, 2006, the fishing vessel Chevelle discarded 283 commercial crab pots at the Chetco River bar mouth during heavy weather. Most of these crab pots have yet to be removed, and many have drifted shoreward, threatening surf access and littering the beach. Surfrider activists on the south coast are working with agency staff and community leaders to get the problem fixed. Yesterday, we got some good news as State Parks has scheduled removal of the pots on the beach for late March. But still no solution yet for the remainder of the pots in the subtidal. Formal inquiries have been made to the US Coast Guard and Department of State Lands to determine jurisdiction for this issue. And many thanks to Surfrider members in Washington State for helping identify technical expertise and potential funding sources to support removal of this derelict gear.