by WSG Crab Team | Jan 26, 2026 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Washington’s Pacific coast has a different European green crab history than the Salish Sea and faces different conditions, so here we share a summary of 2025 green crab status and trends focused on sites within coastal estuaries. This summary is based on data...
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 | Feb 13, 2025 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
February 13, 2025 In this post, we’ll continue our reflections back on 2024 through the lens of the status and trends of European green crabs in Washington. In the last post, we shared observations from trapping efforts across Salish Sea shorelines. Here we shift...
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 | May 7, 2024 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
May 7, 2024 Continuing our summary of 2023 green crab status and trends Pacific Coast The momentum and dedication to extensive trapping for European green crab on Washington’s Pacific coastline continued to grow through 2023. Over the course of the year,...
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...
