by WSG Crab Team | Nov 1, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management
November 1, 2018 The turning of the leaves signals a winding-down of green crab trapping activities. Just as it feels right to us to hunker down and stay warm, cooler water temperatures also cause green crab to become less catchable in the fall and winter. Crab...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 8, 2018 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend, Team News
August 8th, 2018 Last month, Washington Sea Grant Crab Team staff traveled to the Makah Reservation in the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula to participate in the Makah Tribe’s European green crab trapping efforts. As you might remember, in October of...
by WSG Crab Team | Jul 5, 2018 | Green Crab Management, Team News
July 5th, 2018 As we wrote last week, the first half of this monitoring season has seen several new detections of European green crab, but as green crab appear to be ramping up, so is the group of humans ready to control them. WSG Crab Team is now a project with...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 29, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
June 29, 2018 The first half of the 2018 WSG Crab Team monitoring season is coming to a close, and with that comes a status update on European green crab in Washington’s Salish Sea. Since April, live green crab or molts have been detected at five sites, two of which...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 11, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
June 11, 2018 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...
by WSG Crab Team | Apr 27, 2018 | Green Crab Management, Team News
April 27, 2018 Yesterday’s blog post covered the highlights from the first green crab special session at the 2018 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference. Today, we’ll break down the second special session that focused on management of invasive European...
