by Emily Grason | Nov 21, 2017 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Site Spotlight: Iverson Spit Site: Iverson Spit (516) Region: Camano Island Launched: August 2015 Sampling at site 516 is a walk in the park, but only literally. On the shore of northeast Camano Island, volunteers at Iverson Spit County Park walk the Hobbit...
by Emily Grason | Nov 21, 2017 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Green Crab: Declawed It sounds like a koan, one of those paradoxical riddles meant to clear your mind: What is a crab without claws? It turns out a crab without claws is probably…pretty hungry. Crabs use their claws (termed “chelipeds” by crab biologists) much as we...
by Emily Grason | Nov 21, 2017 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings among sites, and track changes over time – even if different people are doing the sampling. With sampling on this scale, even the small steps can be important to what we learn...
by Emily Grason | Oct 12, 2017 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Photo courtesy of D. Paros Following the recent capture of a single European green crab at Lagoon Point, on Whidbey Island, Crab Team staff and volunteers, in consultation with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), headed back to the site last week to...
by Emily Grason | Aug 23, 2017 | Detections
A single European green crab was captured in Sequim Bay last week by Neil Harrington, an Environmental Biologist with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Since the discovery of a small population of green crab in nearby Dungeness Bay this April, Harrington has been...
