by WSG Crab Team | Feb 6, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
(Header photo: 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.) February 6, 2018 The very first publication...
by WSG Crab Team | Feb 5, 2018 | Detections
February 5, 2018: CORRECTION 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...
by WSG Crab Team | Oct 25, 2017 | Coastal Green Crab, Detections
Header image courtesy of Zach Moore/USFWS October 25, 2017 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...
by WSG Crab Team | Oct 12, 2017 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
October 12, 2017 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 last week...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 23, 2017 | Detections
August 23, 2017 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,...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 14, 2017 | Detections
August 14, 2017 It looks as though Crab Team, now a network of 52 early detection sites monitored by more than 200 volunteers and several dozen staff from partner agencies, might have another ally out in the mud. Last week, during regular monthly sampling in a channel...
