by Emily Grason | Jul 17, 2019 | Green Crab Management
July 17, 2019 Drenched and muddy, but greatly relieved, we packed all 150 traps out of the Pysht estuary this morning. Over the past three days, in partnership with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Crab Team staff...
by Emily Grason | Jul 8, 2019 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
July 8, 2019 Last week was a busy one for European green crab monitoring on Washington’s inland shorelines. Two expanded trapping efforts were taking place simultaneously at the beginning of the week, with mixed results. The first, a trapping effort in Whatcom...
by Emily Grason | Jun 3, 2019 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Site Spotlight: Harper Estuary Site: Harper Estuary (97) Region: Kitsap County Launched: 2017 Site Captain: Jim Heytvelt, ‘17 & Eric Schnepp, ‘18, ‘19 The Harper Estuary is a hospitable home for hairy shore crabs and a slicky, sticky, stucky place for...
by Emily Grason | Jun 3, 2019 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Creature Feature: Batillaria Species Name: Batillaria attramentaria Common Name: Asian mud snail, Asian horn snail Species Code: BAAT Size: up to 45mm Distinguishing Features: Snail with a long, narrow, conical shell. What you might imagine a unicorn horn to look...
by Emily Grason | Jun 3, 2019 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
European green crab. Photo credit: Kelly Martin/WSG Fast Food: Some green crab are bigger, stronger, and hungrier than others Guest columnist Brett Howard received her doctorate from Simon Fraser University, completing her dissertation research on the impacts of...
