by Emily Grason | Aug 17, 2022 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Featured Creatures: Group Name: Majoidea (a superfamily, rather than a single species) Common Name: Spider crabs Species Code: SPID Geographic Range: Southwest Alaska to southern California Size: up to about 110mm (4.3″) for Northern kelp crab (Pugettia producta)...
by Emily Grason | Aug 17, 2022 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
What is the Hydra Effect: Could Trapping Green Crabs Increase Their Numbers? Unwelcome and Tough to Evict, When “Eradicated” Species Bounce Back With a Vengeance, and Green Crab Study: Scientists Learn ‘Eradication’ May Not Achieve Desired Solution… These were just a...
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...
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 | Jun 8, 2022 | Detections, Green Crab Management
The amazing volunteers who make up Washington Sea Grant’s Crab Team have done it again, detecting a basketful of green crabs before they became a truckload. Part of what makes this event particularly significant is that it’s in Hood Canal, a basin of the Salish Sea...
