by WSG Crab Team | Jan 5, 2026 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Last year continued Washington’s trend of increasing green crab activity, both in the number of crabs trapped and in the growing network of people working to find and remove them. In early December, Washington Sea Grant (WSG) brought together trappers from across the...
by WSG Crab Team | Nov 25, 2025 | Detections
One of the European green crabs captured in Skagit Bay. Photo courtesy of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. La Conner, Wash. — In late September, the molt from a European green crab was found at Similk Beach, on the northern end of the Swinomish Tribal...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 9, 2025 | Detections
June 9, 2025 Students at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs (FHL) found a green crab molt in False Bay on San Juan Island last weekend. This molt is the first evidence of green crabs found in False Bay and the first evidence since 2019 of green...
by WSG Crab Team | Jan 6, 2025 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
January 6, 2025It’s a season of new beginnings, and as we transition into the New Year, we continue to wrap up what 2024 meant in terms of the European green crab invasion in Washington. And as WSG Crab Team wraps up the 10th year of green crab monitoring, we also...
by WSG Crab Team | Apr 10, 2024 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
April 10, 2024 While 2023 already seems like an eon ago, last year’s trapping season is still very much on our minds even as we launch the 2024 monitoring effort. The winter is a time for green crab managers to regroup, review data to interpret green crab population...
by WSG Crab Team | Dec 31, 2022 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
December 31 2022 We spend a lot of time thinking about how to quantify green crab efforts and numbers to understand status and trends. Suffice to say that any way you slice it, any way you define and quantify metrics, 2022 was a big year in Washington for European...
