Crab Team Blog
We share important green crab information, research progress, and program news on our blog. This is a great place to read more about the history of green crab in Washington and specific decisions about monitoring protocols.
Monitors capture their first in green crab in Chuckanut Bay
Crab Team volunteer monitors have been working in Chuckanut Bay since 2017, and just last month...
In the nick of time? An early detection and rapid assessment in Hood Canal
The amazing volunteers who make up Washington Sea Grant’s Crab Team have done it again, detecting...
Crab Team at the Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
The second all-virtual Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (April 26-28) offered everyone with an...
Community science volunteers discover invasive European Green Crab in Hood Canal
Original Post WDFW and Washington Sea Grant to deploy rapid response trapping effortsOLYMPIA – The...
Environmental DNA (part 3): Reconciling eDNA with traditional detection methods
This is the third in a series of posts on a Crab Team project to develop environmental DNA (eDNA)...
Environmental DNA (part 2): A cautionary carp tale
This is the second in a series of posts sharing new research on the use of environmental DNA...
Environmental DNA (Part 1): Green Crab Monitoring 2.0?
Early detection is one of the best ways to thwart an invasive species, but trying to find some of...
Coastal Green Crab captures increased in 2021
Trapping throughout 2021 indicates that the European green crab invasion has grown across...
What does the invasion at Lummi mean for the Salish Sea?
The recent report by the Lummi Nation of more than 70,000 European green crabs captured this year...