by Emily Grason | Jun 2, 2025 | Team News
Are you one of the millions of Washington residents living on or near the Salish Sea? Join the Salish Sea-wide Molt Blitz on June 20 to contribute to the largest single-day dataset of crab molts collected in our state. Molts are the old shells that crabs shed when...
by Emily Grason | Jun 1, 2025 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Crab Team Deep Dive: Documenting a new shrimp in Washington’s Salish Sea WSG Crab Team recently shared news of a relatively new unwanted arrival to Washington’s Salish Sea shorelines, and it wasn’t the one you’re probably thinking of. In fact, it wasn’t even a crab at...
by Emily Grason | Apr 1, 2025 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
Today is the first day of the 2025 monitoring season and the Crab Team monitoring network is undergoing one of our biggest changes of the last decade. It is with very considered deliberation, discussion, and debate that we have decided to sunset the shoreline transect...
by Emily Grason | Feb 26, 2025 | Community Science, Team News
From humble beginnings spent daydreaming in 2014, from the first trap in the water in 2015, to a network of 307 active monitors across 68 sites: in 2024, Crab Team celebrated a decade of trudging around in the mud and counting crabs! A total of 770 monitors and 37,000...
by Emily Grason | Feb 13, 2025 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Statewide trapping partners from the 2024 WSG Trappers’ Summit hosted by Crab Team at the Clearwater Casino in Suquamish. Staff from partners working with tribes, agencies, and shellfish growers convened in December, sharing observations and questions to help...
