by WSG Crab Team | Sep 26, 2022 | Detections, Research
September 26, 2022 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....
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 9, 2022 | Detections
August 9, 2022 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...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 8, 2022 | Detections, Green Crab Management
June 8, 2022 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...
by WSG Crab Team | May 19, 2022 | Detections
May 19, 2022Original post: https://wdfw.wa.gov/news/community-science-volunteers-discover-invasive-european-green-crab-hood-canal WDFW and Washington Sea Grant to deploy rapid response trapping efforts OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 31, 2021 | Detections, Team News
August 31, 2021 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...
by WSG Crab Team | Oct 22, 2019 | Detections, Green Crab Trend
October 22, 2019 Broadening the search for invasive European green crab in Drayton Harbor, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and WSG Crab Team captured additional European green crab in recent weeks. In addition, Lummi Natural Resources has reported...
