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Article: Trilogy Crabpots: building a better mouse (crab) trap: years ago, former crabber Harvey Ives made a couple of changes to a 50-year-old crabpot design. Last year, he and his 35 employees made 30,000 crab pots, and his company continues to grow.
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- Bellingham Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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Whether it was playing sports at Blaine High School or crabbing in Puget Sound for 37 years, Harvey Ives, 53, said he's always been brash and confident he could outperform his competitors.
Since buying Trilogy Crabpots in 2000, Ives' attitude hasn't changed, as was apparent on a recent morning in his cluttered office, tucked away in a warehouse among the poplars on Marine Drive.
Surrounded by stacks of invoices and empty coffee thermoses, and with charts of local waters and photos of crab pots overflowing with Dungeness crabs adorning his walls, Ives took numerous phone calls from customers and, in blue-collar, everyman fashion, ended each conversation ...