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 | Aug 17, 2022 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Featured Creatures: Group Name: Majoidea (a superfamily, rather than a single species) Common Name: Spider crabs Species Code: SPID Geographic Range: Southwest Alaska to southern California Size: up to about 110mm (4.3″) for Northern kelp crab (Pugettia producta)...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 17, 2022 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
What is the Hydra Effect: Could Trapping Green Crabs Increase Their Numbers? Unwelcome and Tough to Evict, When “Eradicated” Species Bounce Back With a Vengeance, and Green Crab Study: Scientists Learn ‘Eradication’ May Not Achieve Desired Solution… These were just a...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 17, 2022 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
August 17, 2022 This year marks Crab Team’s eighth monitoring season, a fact that completely blows our minds. Some of the Crab Team sites have been systematically sampled since we kicked off in August 2015. As this long term ecological dataset grows even longer, it...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 9, 2022 | Detections
August 9, 2022 Crab Team volunteer monitors have been working in Chuckanut Bay since 2017, and just last month they pulled up their first live green crab during monthly sampling. The crab was a larger (77mm) older female, indicating she’d been present at the site for...
