by WSG Crab Team | Dec 6, 2021 | Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
The recent report by the Lummi Nation of more than 70,000 European green crabs captured this year has many wondering what this could mean for efforts to prevent green crabs from establishing in the Salish Sea. This number certainly indicates that the population of...
by WSG Crab Team | Nov 1, 2021 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Site Spotlight: Drayton Harbor Number: 367 Region: Blaine Launched: 2017 Site Captain: Rondi Nordal On August 22, 2019, Margaret Santamaria and Margarette Grant were scanning a beach in Drayton Harbor during a COASST marine debris survey and noticed an unusual shell...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 1, 2021 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Site Spotlight: Cypress Island Number: 541 Region: Cypress Island, San Juan Islands Launched: 2017 Site Captain: Erin Stehr Habitat Type: Lagoon Have you ever been to Cypress Island Aquatic Reserve? If so, you must have a boat (or a friend with one!), as this...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 1, 2021 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Photo courtesy of Jackson Blalock Green Crab: Elephants in the Eelgrass Guest contributor Brett Howard completed her Ph.D. research at Simon Fraser University focused on the impacts of European green crab on ecosystems in British Columbia. She currently works for...
by WSG Crab Team | Dec 20, 2020 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
A bucket of European green crabs caught in Willapa Bay in early fall 2020. Credit: Alex Stote/WSG As we hang up our hip boots to dry until next season (right next to the holiday lights, of course), it’s a good time to stop and reflect on what we were able to...
