by Emily Grason | Jun 18, 2024 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
Why Measure Native Species? When it comes to interactions between crabs, whether of the same species or of differing species, size matters. When crabs run into each other out on tide flats, in lagoons, or channels, they might compete for food or shelter, or they may...
by Emily Grason | Apr 10, 2024 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
While 2023 already seems like an eon ago, last year’s trapping season is still very much on our minds even as we launch the 2024 monitoring effort. The winter is a time for green crab managers to regroup, review data to interpret green crab population patterns and...
by Emily Grason | Nov 17, 2023 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
We are Crab Team after all, so it’s perhaps no surprise that we are not shy about getting up to our elbows in details about the crabs we catch. But what can we actually learn from looking at size data of crabs? What makes handling all the angry pinchers worthwhile? ...
by Emily Grason | Dec 31, 2022 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
We spend a lot of time thinking about how to quantify green crab efforts and numbers to understand status and trends. Suffice to say that any way you slice it, any way you define and quantify metrics, 2022 was a big year in Washington for European green crab...
by Emily Grason | Aug 17, 2022 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
This year marks Crab Team’s eighth monitoring season, a fact that completely blows our minds. Some of the Crab Team sites have been systematically sampled since we kicked off in August 2015. As this long term ecological dataset grows even longer, it becomes...
