by WSG Crab Team | Aug 30, 2020 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend, Team News
August 30, 2020 In 2016, when invasive European green crabs were first found on San Juan Island, media coverage left a lot of folks on Washington’s coast scratching their heads. Why the sudden concern? After all, green crabs were first detected in Willapa Bay and...
by WSG Crab Team | May 8, 2020 | Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
May 8, 2020 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 urgent threat of...
by WSG Crab Team | Oct 22, 2019 | Detections, Green Crab Trend
October 22, 2019 Broadening the search for invasive European green crab in Drayton Harbor, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and WSG Crab Team captured additional European green crab in recent weeks. In addition, Lummi Natural Resources has reported...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 13, 2019 | Detections, Green Crab Trend
August 13, 2019 Growers working with Taylor Shellfish captured a female European green crab while working in oyster beds last week. This crab is the fourth that has been found in Samish Bay this year, the first three detections occurring in early January. At...
by WSG Crab Team | Jul 8, 2019 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
July 8, 2019 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...
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...
