by Emily Grason | Jul 3, 2020 | Green Crab Management
This large male European green crab captured at Drayton is one of the likely 2018 cohort. Credit: Allie Simpsons courtesy of NWSC Removal of European green crab in Drayton Harbor is now underway, thanks to the collaborative efforts of WSG, Washington Department of...
by Emily Grason | Jul 2, 2020 | Green Crab Management
Traps ready to be hauled out on the mud. Looking north across the US-Canada border toward Surrey. Credit: Chelsey Buffington courtesy of WDFW Removal of European green crab in Drayton Harbor is now underway, thanks to the collaborative efforts of WSG, Washington...
by Emily Grason | May 8, 2020 | Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Header photo courtesy of Chris Brown Like so many other projects and programs right now, partners contributing to state-wide efforts to manage European green crabs are trying to figure out what can safely be done, in the midst of the global pandemic, to address the...
by WSG Crab Team | Sep 6, 2019 | Detections, Green Crab Management
Frances Robertson and Kelly Martin head out to the marsh at Westcott Bay to set traps. Photo: Emily Grason Last week, Crab Team Program Manager, Emily Grason, and Program Assistant, Kelly Martin, conducted a trapping assessment on San Juan Island with Chelsey...
by Emily Grason | Jul 17, 2019 | Green Crab Management
Drenched and muddy, but greatly relieved, we packed all 150 traps out of the Pysht estuary this morning. Over the past three days, in partnership with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Crab Team staff participated in an...
by WSG Crab Team | Jul 8, 2019 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Last week was a busy one for European green crab monitoring on Washington’s inland shorelines. Two expanded trapping efforts were taking place simultaneously at the beginning of the week, with mixed results. The first, a trapping effort in Whatcom...