by Emily Grason | 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 Emily Grason | 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 Emily Grason | Dec 1, 2021 | 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 | 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 Emily Grason | Nov 1, 2021 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Do you know your sculpins? Despite its affinity for freshwater, the prickly sculpin (Cottus asper, COAS) occasionally appears in Crab Team traps. Photo courtesy of Mark Wegehaupt Featured Creatures: Species Name: Oligocottus maculosus Common Name: Tidepool sculpin...
