by Emily Grason | Jan 6, 2025 | Detections, 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...
by Emily Grason | Dec 16, 2024 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Number: 602 Region: Pacific County Launched: 2020 Site Captains: Megan Bungum and Rachel Flannery Tokeland is a site with significant historical status, to the story of green crab in Washington and much deeper in time as well. Within the Crab Team monitoring network,...
by Emily Grason | Dec 16, 2024 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Diet DNA: What Are Green Crabs Eating? It’s a beautiful, blue-sky day in Willapa Bay. The sunlight dances on Stackpole slough as a light breeze ruffles the surface of the water. We can still hear some birdsong from the woods along the shoreline. And I’m stuck in...
by Emily Grason | Dec 16, 2024 | Community Science, Monitor Resources
Tips for taking the best photos of your bin catches Your bin photos may feel as easy as the click of a button, but they are the essential step in the protocol that allows the Crab Team dataset to be used by researchers. Namely, they are the tool for validating all...
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...
