by Emily Grason | May 13, 2019 | Green Crab Management
Crab Team and USFWS Staff and volunteers head out to trap at Graveyard Spit in 2017. Credit: UW College of the Environment The return of spring means trapping season for green crab is now under way. In April, WSG Crab Team resumed early detection trapping across the...
by Emily Grason | Nov 1, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management
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 Team monitors have...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 8, 2018 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend, Team News
The largest green crab captured on the trip measuring 86.5mm. All photos by Kelly Martin. 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...
by WSG Crab Team | Jul 5, 2018 | Green Crab Management, Team News
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 five team members...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 29, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
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 are new...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 11, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
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 assessment, Crab Team HQ...
