by Emily Grason | Sep 2, 2016 | Detections
Crab Team volunteers discovered the first confirmed sighting of a European green crab along inland Washington shorelines while conducting their regular monthly monitoring earlier this week. Volunteers at Westcott Bay, on San Juan Island, discovered the large adult...
by Emily Grason | Aug 4, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Site Spotlight: Kala Krabbers Site: Kala Lagoon (204) Region: Port Townsend Captain: Chris Jones Launched: August 2015 In addition to being a fantastic Crab Team crew, the Kala Krabbers are stars of radio drama, recently lighting up the airwaves of KPTZ Port...
by Emily Grason | Aug 4, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Creature Feature: Graceful Crab Most people have never heard of the graceful crab (Cancer (Metacarcinus) gracilis), despite how common it is. That’s because it looks very similar to a crab people often see on their dinner tables, Dungeness crab. The two species look...
by Emily Grason | Aug 4, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Zombie Crabs – Why Can’t We Get Those Here? In Europe, millions of zombie green crabs are roaming the shore. From the outside, you might not even realize they are brain dead, no longer truly a green crab, but have been transformed into a skittering, feasting,...
by Emily Grason | Jun 7, 2016 | Monitor Resources
One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings among different 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...
