by WSG Crab Team | Feb 24, 2022 | Research
February 24, 2022 Early detection is one of the best ways to thwart an invasive species, but trying to find some of the first individuals to arrive in a new habitat is no easy task. WSG Crab Team built a monitoring network to meet this challenge: by using multiple...
by WSG Crab Team | Jan 20, 2022 | Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
January 20, 2022 Trapping throughout 2021 indicates that the European green crab invasion has grown across Washington’s coastal estuaries, namely Willapa Bay, Grays Harbor, and Makah Bay. This year’s collaborative efforts by many partners to remove crabs and track the...
by WSG Crab Team | Dec 6, 2021 | Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
December 6, 2021 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...
by WSG Crab Team | 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 WSG Crab Team | 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...
