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...
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...
