by WSG Crab Team | Jun 8, 2022 | Detections, Green Crab Management
June 8, 2022 The amazing volunteers who make up Washington Sea Grant’s Crab Team have done it again, detecting a basketful of green crabs before they became a truckload. Part of what makes this event particularly significant is that it’s in Hood Canal, a basin of the...
by WSG Crab Team | May 31, 2022 | Green Crab Management, Team News
May 31, 2022 The second all-virtual Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (April 26-28) offered everyone with an interest or involvement in the inland waters shared by Washington and British Columbia the chance to connect over a huge range of topics, impacts of...
by WSG Crab Team | May 19, 2022 | Detections
May 19, 2022Original post: https://wdfw.wa.gov/news/community-science-volunteers-discover-invasive-european-green-crab-hood-canal WDFW and Washington Sea Grant to deploy rapid response trapping efforts OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife...
by WSG Crab Team | Mar 30, 2022 | Research
March 30, 2022 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...
by WSG Crab Team | Mar 3, 2022 | Research
March 3, 2022 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...
