by WSG Crab Team | Aug 17, 2022 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Site Spotlight: Blakely Harbor Number: 553 Region: Kitsap County Launched: 2016 Site Captain: Bob Rosenbladt If you’ve ever conducted a Crab Team shoreline survey, you’ve likely circled “mud” more than once when identifying the substrate type. At the Crab Team site...
by WSG Crab Team | Mar 30, 2022 | Research
This is the third in a series of posts on a Crab Team project to develop environmental DNA (eDNA) for use in early detection and management of European green crab. The first posts provided an introduction to eDNA and the benefits and challenges it offers to invasion...
by WSG Crab Team | Mar 3, 2022 | Research
This is the second in a series of posts sharing new research on the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) in detection of green crabs. For our introduction to eDNA, check out the previous post. As a detection tool, the process of sampling eDNA is relatively simple, but...
by WSG Crab Team | Feb 24, 2022 | Research
Early detection is one of the best ways to thwart an invasive species, but trying to find some of the first individuals to arrive in a new habitat is no easy task. WSG Crab Team built a monitoring network to meet this challenge: by using multiple search methods and...
by WSG Crab Team | Jan 20, 2022 | Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Header Photo: Hundreds of frozen European green crabs, trapped as part of Pacific Shellfish’s removal efforts in Grays Harbor. Credit: Alex Stote Trapping throughout 2021 indicates that the European green crab invasion has grown across Washington’s coastal...
