Protocol In Focus: Why do we use mackerel as bait?
September 10, 2018 One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings amo...
WSG Crab Team Trip to Makah Bay
August 8th, 2018 Measuring one of the green crab caught in a trap in the Wa’atch River estuary. Last month, W...
Building Capacity to Protect the Salish Sea From European Green Crab
July 5th, 2018 As we wrote last week, the first half of this monitoring season has seen several new detections of...
European Green Crab Status Update
June 29, 2018 The first half of the 2018 WSG Crab Team monitoring season is coming to a close, and with that comes...
Single Green Crab Found During Follow-Up Assessment on Whidbey Island
June 11, 2018 Last week, WSG Crab Team spent three full days in the mud at Lagoon Point on Whidbey Island. After tw...
HEOR or HENU?
May 11, 2018 HEOR or HENU? Crab Team volunteers know it’s one of the most challenging questions we face duri...
Protocol In Focus: HEOR Parasites
Blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) sexes as compared to national monuments. Crab Photos: FDA Monument Photos: Wikipedi...
Crab Team Highlights from the 2018 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference – Part 2
April 27, 2018 Yesterday’s blog post covered the highlights from the first green crab special session at the...
Crab Team Highlights from the 2018 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference – Part 1
April 26, 2018 Between April 4th and 6th hundreds of scientists, managers, and policymakers descended upon the Wash...
Where are the European Green Crab in the Salish Sea Coming From?
April 25, 2018 Finding a few isolated pockets of invasive European green crab in Washington’s Salish Sea over...
Documenting the European Green Crab Range Expansion
(Header photo: Allen Pleus, Aquatic Invasive Species Unit Lead for Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife wit...
Crab Team Welcomes Program Assistant
Header photo: assisting with the Cape Eleuthera Institute’s green sea turtle research. January 17, 2018 Ch...
Protocol in Focus: What Happens to My Data?
November 21, 2017 One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings amon...
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CORRECTION: First European Green Crab Confirmed in Port Angeles
February 5, 2018: CORRECTION Since this report was made, we have determined that the evidence originally submitted...
New Coastal Site for European Green Crab: Makah Bay
Header image courtesy of Zach Moore/USFWS October 25, 2017 At the end of August, Crab Team received an email on our...
Trapping for European Green Crab on Whidbey Island
October 12, 2017 The crew prepares to deploy traps at Lagoon Point. L-R Crab Team Lead, Jeff Adams; Volunteers Debr...
European Green Crab Captured on Whidbey Island
Adult European green crab captured by Crab Team volunteers at Lagoon Point this weekend. Photos: courtesy of Bridge...
European Green Crab Found in Sequim Bay
August 23, 2017 A single European green crab was captured in Sequim Bay last week by Neil Harrington, an Environmen...
Evidence of Predation on European Green Crab from Padilla Bay
August 14, 2017 It looks as though Crab Team, now a network of 52 early detection sites monitored by more than 200...
Widening the Search for European Green Crab in the Strait of Juan de Fuca
July 20, 2017 Trapping to remove invasive European green crab from Dungeness Spit National Wildlife Refuge is in it...
Update on European Green Crab at Dungeness Spit
Header image: Allen Pleus (WDFW) June 22, 2017 Four European green crab were captured at Dungeness Spit in early Ap...
Invasive Green Crab Found at Dungeness Spit
(Photo: European Green Crab found at Dungeness Spit, Sequim, April 2017. Photo by Allen Pleus, Washington Departme...
Protocol in Focus: Why do we survey the habitat transect every month?
One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings among sites, and track...
Crab Team Takes Willapa Bay by Storm: Part 3
November 15, 2016 This series of three posts was originally written in August, but was pre-empted by the news of Eu...
Crab Team Takes Willapa Bay by Storm: Part 2
November 8, 2016 This series of three posts was originally written in August, but was pre-empted by the news of Eur...