by Emily Grason | May 2, 2017 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Photo: Sean McDonald. “Green” Crab: Just How Green is “Green”? If you have participated in any Crab Team training workshops, then you know full well that we don’t put much stock in color as a diagnostic characteristic for identifying crabs. Our ‘don’t use color’...
by Emily Grason | Aug 4, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Site Spotlight: Kala Krabbers Site: Kala Lagoon (204) Region: Port Townsend Captain: Chris Jones Launched: August 2015 In addition to being a fantastic Crab Team crew, the Kala Krabbers are stars of radio drama, recently lighting up the airwaves of KPTZ Port...
by Emily Grason | Aug 4, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Creature Feature: Graceful Crab Most people have never heard of the graceful crab (Cancer (Metacarcinus) gracilis), despite how common it is. That’s because it looks very similar to a crab people often see on their dinner tables, Dungeness crab. The two species look...
by Emily Grason | Aug 4, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Zombie Crabs – Why Can’t We Get Those Here? In Europe, millions of zombie green crabs are roaming the shore. From the outside, you might not even realize they are brain dead, no longer truly a green crab, but have been transformed into a skittering, feasting,...
by Emily Grason | May 11, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
A river-otters eye view of the tranquil, reflective waters of Butterball cove. With such an adorable site name, it was perhaps no surprise that we got to see a couple of playful river otters scamper across the berm at Butterball Cove on the first day of sampling last...
by Emily Grason | May 11, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Creature Feature: Staghorn Sculpin One of our favorite fishes is the staghorn sculpin, (Leptocottus armatus – LEAR, to our volunteers). That turns out to be a good thing, because, after shore crabs, staghorn sculpins are the most abundant organism in our traps, so we...
