by WSG Crab Team | Aug 22, 2019 | Detections
August 22, 2019 Crab Team volunteers in Drayton Harbor, just south of the border with Canada, found the shell of an invasive European green crab while walking the beach this past Saturday. The detection is the furthest northward along Washington shorelines the...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 13, 2019 | Detections, Green Crab Trend
August 13, 2019 Growers working with Taylor Shellfish captured a female European green crab while working in oyster beds last week. This crab is the fourth that has been found in Samish Bay this year, the first three detections occurring in early January. At...
by WSG Crab Team | 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 WSG Crab Team | 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 WSG Crab Team | 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...
