by Emily Grason | Aug 9, 2022 | Detections
Crab Team volunteer monitors have been working in Chuckanut Bay since 2017, and just last month they pulled up their first live green crab during monthly sampling. The crab was a larger (77mm) older female, indicating she’d been present at the site for at least three...
by Emily Grason | May 31, 2022 | Green Crab Management, Team News
The second all-virtual Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (April 26-28) offered everyone with an interest or involvement in the inland waters shared by Washington and British Columbia the chance to connect over a huge range of topics, impacts of last summer’s heat dome,...
by Emily Grason | May 19, 2022 | Detections
Original Post WDFW and Washington Sea Grant to deploy rapid response trapping efforts OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has received confirmation that volunteers with Washington Sea Grant have captured a male European green crab in Nick’s...
by Emily Grason | Dec 1, 2021 | Monitor Resources
One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings among 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 what we learn...
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....
