by WSG Crab Team | Oct 25, 2017 | Coastal Green Crab, Detections
Header image courtesy of Zach Moore/USFWS October 25, 2017 At the end of August, Crab Team received an email on our “tip line” from a beachwalker who had spotted a European green crab near Hobuck Beach in Makah Bay. The photograph submitted enabled us to immediately...
by WSG Crab Team | Oct 12, 2017 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
October 12, 2017 Following the recent capture of a single European green crab at Lagoon Point, on Whidbey Island (read more), Crab Team staff and volunteers, in consultation with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), headed back to the site last week...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 23, 2017 | Detections
August 23, 2017 A single European green crab was captured in Sequim Bay last week by Neil Harrington, an Environmental Biologist with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Since the discovery of a small population of green crab in nearby Dungeness Bay this April,...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 14, 2017 | Detections
August 14, 2017 It looks as though Crab Team, now a network of 52 early detection sites monitored by more than 200 volunteers and several dozen staff from partner agencies, might have another ally out in the mud. Last week, during regular monthly sampling in a channel...
by WSG Crab Team | Jul 20, 2017 | Green Crab Management
July 20, 2017 Trapping to remove invasive European green crab from Dungeness Spit National Wildlife Refuge is in its 15th week since the initial discovery of four individuals during April of this year. As of last Friday, partners with US Fish and Wildlife Service...