by WSG Crab Team | Jul 8, 2019 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Last week was a busy one for European green crab monitoring on Washington’s inland shorelines. Two expanded trapping efforts were taking place simultaneously at the beginning of the week, with mixed results. The first, a trapping effort in Whatcom...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 3, 2019 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
European green crab. Photo credit: Kelly Martin/WSG Fast Food: Some green crab are bigger, stronger, and hungrier than others Guest columnist Brett Howard received her doctorate from Simon Fraser University, completing her dissertation research on the impacts of...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 8, 2018 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend, Team News
The largest green crab captured on the trip measuring 86.5mm. All photos by Kelly Martin. Last month, Washington Sea Grant Crab Team staff traveled to the Makah Reservation in the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula to participate in the Makah Tribe’s European...
by WSG Crab Team | Jul 5, 2018 | Green Crab Management, Team News
As we wrote last week, the first half of this monitoring season has seen several new detections of European green crab, but as green crab appear to be ramping up, so is the group of humans ready to control them. WSG Crab Team is now a project with five team members...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 29, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
The first half of the 2018 WSG Crab Team monitoring season is coming to a close, and with that comes a status update on European green crab in Washington’s Salish Sea. Since April, live green crab or molts have been detected at five sites, two of which are new...
