by Emily Grason | Apr 10, 2024 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
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 patterns and...
by Emily Grason | Jun 15, 2023 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
As we dive into the 2023 European green crab trapping season, it’s important to reflect on the insights gained from the coastal green crab populations in 2022. This summary of green crab observations from Washington’s coastal estuaries complements our Inland 2022...
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 | 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 31, 2022 | Green Crab Management, Team News
The second all-virtual Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (April 26-28) offered everyone with an interest or involvement in the inland waters shared by Washington and British Columbia the chance to connect over a huge range of topics, impacts of last summer’s heat dome,...
by Emily Grason | Jan 20, 2022 | Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Header Photo: Hundreds of frozen European green crabs, trapped as part of Pacific Shellfish’s removal efforts in Grays Harbor. Credit: Alex Stote Trapping throughout 2021 indicates that the European green crab invasion has grown across Washington’s coastal...
