by WSG Crab Team | Jun 11, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Last week, WSG Crab Team spent three full days in the mud at Lagoon Point on Whidbey Island. After two European green crab were discovered there last year, one during regular volunteer monitoring and a second during the subsequent rapid assessment, Crab Team HQ...
by Emily Grason | Feb 6, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Allen Pleus, Aquatic Invasive Species Unit Lead for Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife with one of the green crab captured in Padilla Bay during the collaborative assessment trapping effort in 2016. The very first publication by Crab Team was just released...
by Emily Grason | Feb 5, 2018 | Detections
Since this report was made, we have determined that the evidence originally submitted of the crab’s identity was not verifiable as a direct observation of the crab. Because European green crab is currently very rare in Washington’s Salish Sea, the majority of reports...
by WSG Crab Team | Oct 25, 2017 | Coastal Green Crab, Detections
Photo courtesy of Zach Moore/USFWS At the end of August, Crab Team received an email on our “tip line” from a beachwalker who had spotted a European green crab near Hobuck Beach in Makah Bay. The photograph submitted enabled us to immediately confirm the sighting,...
by Emily Grason | Oct 12, 2017 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Photo courtesy of D. Paros Following the recent capture of a single European green crab at Lagoon Point, on Whidbey Island (read more), Crab Team staff and volunteers, in consultation with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), headed back to the site...
by Emily Grason | Aug 23, 2017 | Detections
A single European green crab was captured in Sequim Bay last week by Neil Harrington, an Environmental Biologist with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Since the discovery of a small population of green crab in nearby Dungeness Bay this April, Harrington has been...
