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Wooden Boat Festival
Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival is the most education-packed and beautifully located wooden boat event in the world. Featuring more than 300 wooden vessels, hundreds of indoor and outdoor presentations and demonstrations, a who’s who of wooden boat experts and thousands of wooden bo...
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 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 this crab h...
Protocol in Focus: Why do we measure native crabs, too?
June 18, 2024
Why Measure Native Species?
A Dungeness crab resigning itself to getting measured by a monitor at Kala Lagoon (site #204). Photo credit: Wendy Feltham
When it comes to interactions between crabs, whether of the same species or of differing species, size matters. When crabs run into eac...
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In the Nick of time? An early detection and rapid assessment in Hood Canal
June 8, 2022
The amazing volunteers who make up Washington Sea Grant’s Crab Team have done it again, detecting a basketful of green crabs before they became a truckload. Part of what makes this event particularly significant is that it’s in Hood Canal, a basin of the Salish Sea where green crabs...
Green Crab Trapping Resumes in the Salish Sea
May 13, 2019
The return of spring means trapping season for green crab is now under way. In April, WSG Crab Team resumed early detection trapping across the monitoring network along Washington’s inland shorelines. We’re pleased to share that Crab Team has received funding to continue thi...
Padilla Bay Rapid Assessment: Wrap Up
Header image by Allen Pleus (WDFW)
September 29, 2016
The joint effort by WSG Crab Team, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW), and Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (PBNERR) to assess the abundance and distribution of invasive European green crabs in Padilla Bay wrapped...
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Update on National Sea Grant Funding
With vocal support from our many stakeholders, the Nati...
Northwest Fisheries Science Center’s 5th Science Symposium
Our partner in regional science, NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center, will host the 5th annual Science Symposium, a two-day event to showcase fisheries and ecosystem science and to foster collaboration among scientists.
WSG Social Scientist, Melissa Poe, will present results from a recen...
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First sighting of European green crab in inland Washington confirmed
September 2, 2016
Crab Team volunteers discovered the first confirmed sighting of a European green crab along inland Washington shorelines while conducting their regular monthly monitoring earlier this week.
Volunteers at Westcott Bay, on San Juan Island, discovered the large adult male in one of th...
Using lasers to deter birds
July 26, 2018
In 2016, Washington Sea Grant marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin published a study on whether laser light can prevent seabird bycatch in North Pacific fisheries. Since then, Melvin has encouraged and supported researchers at Purdue Universtiy to study the risk of injuries to birds w...
European green crab found at Kala Point Lagoon
September 19, 2018
Earlier this month, WSG Crab Team found invasive European green crab at Kala Point Lagoon in Port Townsend. Read more about the discovery and its implications in the article below, from The Port Townsend Leader. A big thanks to the hardworking Crab Team volunteers who ha...
How the Elwha Dam Removals Changed the River’s Mouth
January 18, 2018
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For decades, resource managers agreed that removing the two dams on the Elwha River would be a big win for the watershed as a whole and, in particular, for its anadromous trout and salmon. The dams sat on the river for more than 100 years, trapping approximately 30 m...