by Emily Grason | Dec 31, 2022 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
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 green crab...
by Emily Grason | Sep 26, 2022 | Detections, Research
This is the fourth and final in a series of posts on a Crab Team project to develop environmental DNA (eDNA) for use in early detection and management of European green crab. Links to the previous posts are found in the text below. Environmental DNA (eDNA) has...
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...
by Emily Grason | May 19, 2022 | Detections
Original Post WDFW and Washington Sea Grant to deploy rapid response trapping efforts OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has received confirmation that volunteers with Washington Sea Grant have captured a male European green crab in Nick’s...
by Emily Grason | Aug 31, 2021 | Detections, Team News
It’s been just five years since the first phone call came in with the news we all feared. I was returning from a morning dog walk and got the message from Crab Team volunteer Craig Staude: a European green crab had been captured at Westcott Bay, on San Juan Island....
