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...
by Emily Grason | Feb 6, 2018 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Allen Pleus, Aquatic Invasive Species Unit Lead for Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife with one of the green crab captured in Padilla Bay during the collaborative assessment trapping effort in 2016. The very first publication by Crab Team was just released...
by Emily Grason | Oct 12, 2017 | Detections, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Photo courtesy of D. Paros Following the recent capture of a single European green crab at Lagoon Point, on Whidbey Island (read more), Crab Team staff and volunteers, in consultation with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), headed back to the site...
by Emily Grason | Jun 22, 2017 | Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend
Four European green crab were captured at Dungeness Spit in early April – the third location in inland Washington where green crab have been found. Since the initial discovery 10 weeks ago, staff and volunteers from US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Washington...
by Emily Grason | Nov 15, 2016 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Trend, Research
This series of three posts was originally written in August, but was pre-empted by the news of European green crab captures on San Juan Island and in Padilla Bay. Better late than never, here are our field notes on green crab trapping in Willapa Bay during August of...
