Loopholes for bogus fishing boats and suspicious crustacean traps may be plugged by state fishing regulators Wednesday and Thursday.

Concern about a new breed of stone-crab traps that can double as lobster traps will be among issued pondered by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission at its two-day meeting in Tallahassee.

Agency staff will recommend the FWC board move to reduce both the maximum allowable size of stone-crab traps and dimensions of the trap entrance -- the "throat" -- to discourage crab traps from being used to catch lobster.

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