by WSG Crab Team | Aug 30, 2020 | Coastal Green Crab, Green Crab Management, Green Crab Trend, Team News
Header photo credit: Emily Grason/WSG 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...
by Emily Grason | Apr 22, 2020 | Team News
The SeaDoc Society announced Washington Sea Grant Crab Team as the 2020 winner of the Salish Sea Science Prize. The SeaDoc Society, a program of the UC Davis Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, awards the Salish Sea Science Prize every two years in recognition of...
by WSG Crab Team | Apr 9, 2020 | Team News
Dear Crab Team enthusiasts, I’m excited to introduce myself as the new Crab Team coordinator. During these unusual times, I know that many of us are striving to fill our days with meaning and more time outdoors. Once it is safe to do so, I look forward to doing both...
by Emily Grason | Mar 31, 2020 | Monitor Resources, Team News
Header photo credit: Jeff Adams March and April are typically the busiest months on the Crab Team annual calendar, as staff and volunteers reunite for training workshops to relaunch the monitoring season. This spring, however, the Crab Team office has been almost...
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...
