Fall 2016
Fall 2016
Crab Team’s Big Discovery!
August 4th, 2016
You might have heard the recent news that Crab Team volunteers captured the first confirmed European green crab in Washington’s inland waters (but if you haven’t, read our blog post)...
New Detection of European Green Crab in Samish Bay
January 23, 2019
Samish Bay is located just northeast of Padilla Bay.
Three European green crab have been found in Samish Bay, north of Mt. Vernon, a new detection location for the globally-damaging invasive on Washington’s inland shorelines.
The three adult crabs, including an egg-bearing (gra...
2023 Green Crab Status Summary: Part 2 (Coast)
May 7, 2024
Continuing our summary of 2023 green crab status and trends
Pacific Coast
The momentum and dedication to extensive trapping for European green crab on Washington’s Pacific coastline continued to grow through 2023. Over the course of the year, nearly 355,000 green crabs were removed f...
Aquaculture Timeline
Washington Coast Shellfish Aquaculture Timeline
Welcome to the Washington Coast Shellfish Aquaculture Timeline. This project is part of the Washington Coast Shellfish Aquaculture Study project, which is an effort to improve the long-term sustainability of shellfish aquaculture in Willa...
2022 Season Wrap Up – WA Coast
June 15, 2023
As we dive into the 2023 European green crab trapping season, it’s important to reflect on the insights gained from the coastal green crab populations in 2022. This summary of green crab observations from Washington’s coastal estuaries complements our Inland 2022 wrap-up, round...
Environmental DNA (Part 4): The Vashon Island Mystery
September 26, 2022
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 recently gained atte...
Protocol in Focus: Where does the data go?
August 17, 2022
This year marks Crab Team’s eighth monitoring season, a fact that completely blows our minds. Some of the Crab Team sites have been systematically sampled since we kicked off in August 2015. As this long term ecological dataset grows even longer, it becomes increasingly valuabl...
Launching Collaborative Green Crab Management in Drayton Harbor (part 2)
July 3, 2020
Removal of European green crab in Drayton Harbor is now underway, thanks to the collaborative efforts of WSG, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the Northwest Straits Commission (NWSC) and other stakeholders. This is the second of two posts on efforts to date. Part 1 cov...
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...
Washington State’s Boat Fleet – 2016
Washington State’s Boat Fleet – 2016
In 2016 alone, 5,750 new vessels worth $234 million were added to the 205,694 registered vessels in Washington’s 2.63 billion dollar boating fleet. The marina industry and state marine recreation agencies and consultants need accurate, geog...
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 changes over time – even if different people are doing the sampling. With sampling on this scale, even the small steps can be important to what we learn from the data. Protocol in Fo...
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 April – the third location in inland Washington where green crab have been found. Since the initial discovery 10 weeks ago, staff and volunteers from US Fish and Wildlife Service (U...
Protocol in Focus: Why do we measure European green crabs?
November 17, 2023
We are Crab Team after all, so it’s perhaps no surprise that we are not shy about getting up to our elbows in details about the crabs we catch. But what can we actually learn from looking at size data of crabs? What makes handling all the angry pinchers worthwhile?
We’re cove...
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Padilla Bay: In It For The Long Haul
August 23, 2021
August 30 of this year will mark the fifth anniversary of the first confirmed detection of invasive European green crab along the inland shorelines of Washington which occurred on San Juan Island. Three weeks later, the region will hit the same milestone for the second confirmed dete...