by WSG Crab Team | Sep 26, 2022 | Detections, Research
This is the fourth and final in a series of posts on a Crab Team project to develop environmental DNA (eDNA) for use in early detection and management of European green crab. Links to the previous posts are found in the text below. Environmental DNA (eDNA) has...
by WSG Crab Team | Mar 30, 2022 | Research
This is the third in a series of posts on a Crab Team project to develop environmental DNA (eDNA) for use in early detection and management of European green crab. The first posts provided an introduction to eDNA and the benefits and challenges it offers to invasion...
by WSG Crab Team | Mar 3, 2022 | Research
This is the second in a series of posts sharing new research on the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) in detection of green crabs. For our introduction to eDNA, check out the previous post. As a detection tool, the process of sampling eDNA is relatively simple, but...
by WSG Crab Team | Feb 24, 2022 | Research
Early detection is one of the best ways to thwart an invasive species, but trying to find some of the first individuals to arrive in a new habitat is no easy task. WSG Crab Team built a monitoring network to meet this challenge: by using multiple search methods and...
by Emily Grason | Apr 25, 2018 | Green Crab Management, Research
Finding a few isolated pockets of invasive European green crab in Washington’s Salish Sea over the past two years indicates the early stages of a possible range expansion. Certainly, it is the goal of WSG Crab Team and management to protect shorelines from the damage...
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...
