by Emily Grason | Aug 31, 2021 | Detections, Team News
It’s been just five years since the first phone call came in with the news we all feared. I was returning from a morning dog walk and got the message from Crab Team volunteer Craig Staude: a European green crab had been captured at Westcott Bay, on San Juan Island....
by Emily Grason | Aug 23, 2021 | Green Crab Management
Header photo courtesy of Roger Fuller, PBNERR August 30 of this year will mark the fifth anniversary of the first confirmed detection of invasive European green crab along the inland shorelines of Washington which occurred on San Juan Island. Three weeks later, the...
by Emily Grason | Dec 23, 2020 | Green Crab Management
One of the big successes this year was the launch of a local removal effort in Drayton Harbor. In spite of COVID, in spite of wildfire smoke, in spite of everything that 2020 had to throw at us, the collaborative management team was able to make great strides in...
by Emily Grason | Nov 23, 2020 | Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Amy Linhart and WDFW technician April Fleming spotted a juvenile European green crab in Lummi Bay in September. Credit: Emily Grason/WSG Trapping for European green crab has mostly concluded for the 2020 season, enabling us to take stock of all that was accomplished...
by Emily Grason | Nov 1, 2020 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Site Spotlight: Post Point Number: 362 Region: Bellingham Launched: 2016 Site Captain: Bob Cecile Habitat Type: Lagoon If you peruse the Crab Team archives of annual infographics, you might notice that one site name pops up repeatedly with the superlative of greatest...