by WSG Crab Team | 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 WSG Crab Team | Dec 16, 2024 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
A small midshipmen held out of water showing off striped pectoral fins. A purple colored midshipmen in a shallow tidal pool A partially decomposed midshipmen skull showing small sharp teeth Species Name: Porichthys notatus Common Name: Plainfin midshipman Species...
by WSG Crab Team | 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 WSG Crab Team | Jun 1, 2024 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Number: 380 Region: Skagit County Launched: 2016 Site Captain: Paul Dinnel If you asked many joggers and cyclists in the Anacortes area where to go for a beautiful jaunt, they’d probably point you to the Tommy Thompson Trail. It crosses shallow Fidalgo Bay along the...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 1, 2024 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
A pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) swimming up stream. Photo credit: John McMillan Common Name and Species Names: Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 1, 2024 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Green Crab Migration and Movement One of the most pressing issues for management of European green crabs in the Pacific Northwest is to better understand how green crabs, as adults, move across the water bodies they inhabit. We are increasingly learning about the...
