by WSG Crab Team | Jul 5, 2018 | Green Crab Management, Team News
July 5th, 2018 As we wrote last week, the first half of this monitoring season has seen several new detections of European green crab, but as green crab appear to be ramping up, so is the group of humans ready to control them. WSG Crab Team is now a project with...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 29, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
June 29, 2018 The first half of the 2018 WSG Crab Team monitoring season is coming to a close, and with that comes a status update on European green crab in Washington’s Salish Sea. Since April, live green crab or molts have been detected at five sites, two of which...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 11, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
June 11, 2018 Last week, WSG Crab Team spent three full days in the mud at Lagoon Point on Whidbey Island. After two European green crab were discovered there last year, one during regular volunteer monitoring and a second during the subsequent rapid...
by WSG Crab Team | May 11, 2018 | Monitor Resources
May 11, 2018 HEOR or HENU? Crab Team volunteers know it’s one of the most challenging questions we face during sampling. Telling hairy shore crabs (HEOR) apart from purple shore crabs (HENU) can be very tricky, especially when all you have is two tiny molted...
by WSG Crab Team | May 10, 2018 | Monitor Resources
May 10, 2018 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...
