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• Crab Team’s Rapid Response: Day 1
  September 12, 2016 Emily preps bait for trapping response on the FHL docks. Emily here, writing from beautiful Friday Harbor Labs after our first full field day on San Juan Island as part of our rapid response effort. Following the Westcott Bay Crab Team volunteer capture of an adult male green cra...
• Padilla Bay Rapid Response: Day 1
  September 26, 2016 Emily here to report that Crab Team is on the road again, spending three days in Padilla Bay where the second confirmed capture of European green crab in Washington’s Salish Sea took place only a week ago. The capture occurred less than a week after we returned from San...
• What Does the Invasion at Lummi Mean for the Salish Sea?
  December 6, 2021 The recent report by the Lummi Nation of more than 70,000 European green crabs captured this year has many wondering what this could mean for efforts to prevent green crabs from establishing in the Salish Sea. This number certainly indicates that the population of green crabs within...
• New Staff: WSG Welcomes Andrea Chateaubriand and Sam Cheplick
  February 28, 2022 We are thrilled to welcome two new staff to the team: Andrea Chateaubriand and Sam Cheplick. Andrea joined WSG in December 2021 as the executive assistant. In this role, she collaborates with the WSG director and leadership team and plays an integral role in managing events, projec...
• How the Elwha Dam Removals Changed the River’s Mouth
  January 18, 2018 Read in UW News 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...
• European green crab’s reach stretches across North Olympic Peninsula
  October 3, 2018 A new story in the Sequim Gazette featuring WSG aquatic invasive species specialist Emily Grason details how far invasive European green crab have spread on the Olympic Peninsula. Read the story here: http://www.sequimgazette.com/news/european-green-crabs-reach-stretches-across-nort...
• Researchers Discover Yessotoxins, Produced by Certain Phytoplankton, to be a Culprit Behind Summer Mass Shellfish Mortality Events in Washington
  June 17, 2021 Dying clams on Hood Canal, Rocky Bay, 2019.King et al, Harmful Algae, 2021 Back in the summers of 2018 and 2019, the shellfish industry in Washington state was rocked by mass mortalities of its crops. “It was oysters, clams, cockles — all bivalve species in some bays were impacted...
• 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...
• Salmon may lose the ability to smell danger as carbon emissions rise
  December 18, 2018 The ability to smell is critical for salmon. They depend on scent to avoid predators, sniff out prey and find their way home at the end of their lives when they return to the streams where they hatched to spawn and die. New research from the University of Washington and NOAA Fishe...
• New staff: WSG welcomes Alison Lorenz
  November 28, 2023 Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to welcome Alison Lorenz as a new science writer. In this role, Alison creates and proofs flyers, blog posts, news releases, reports, and more to keep the public connected to WSG’s work across its program areas. She also supports WSG’s med...
• New report shares Northwest coastal Tribes’ needs and barriers in adapting to climate change
  August 14, 2024 Washington Sea Grant (WSG) co-led with University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians a new report sharing Northwest coastal tribes’ needs and barriers as they work to adapt to climate change. The report compiles findings from six ...
• Washington Sea Grant Receives $1.1 Million in Federal Funding for Aquaculture Research
  November 3, 2017 Read in UW News Aquaculture has been a mainstay of Washington’s economy since the state’s founding, and there is still potential for more growth. Three federal grants announced this week will provide total funding of $1.1 million to Washington Sea Grant, based at the University ...
• Fishing for the Triple Bottom Line: Profit, Planet — And People
  October 17, 2019 A school of Pacific herring. Fisheries managers typically strive to strike a delicate balance between two, often competing, types of needs: the needs for fishermen’s profits and the needs for the planet. But in 1994, entrepreneur John Elkington posited that true sustainability req...
• Director’s Note: The Pull of King Tides
  January 16, 2020 Russell Callender, WSG Director Every winter, the Earth, sun and moon align to create fascinating coastal events: king tides. While ordinary tides are caused by the gravitational forces between Earth and the moon, when that gravitational pull is exacerbated b...
• New Study: How to Save a Seabird
  In the 1990s, the endangered status of the short-tailed albatross catalyzed efforts to reduce the number of birds accidentally killed as bycatch in Alaska, home to the country’s biggest fisheries. Marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin, at Washington Sea Grant at the University of Washington, and re...