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• Fall 2017
  Fall 2017 Wrapping up a busy year November 21st, 2017 The 2017 Crab Team sampling season has officially concluded, and We – with a capital “W”, inclusive of the whole community of Crab Team volunteers, partners, cheerleaders and staff – can b...
• 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 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...
• Padilla Bay Rapid Response: Day 2
  September 27, 2016 Map showing trapping (white) and capture (red) sites to date for invasive European green crab in Padilla Bay. Click to enlarge. Another stunningly beautiful day to explore Padilla Bay (read about day 1). Day two of our rapid response trapping effort is complete; our teams checked ...
• 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...
• 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...
• Documenting the European Green Crab Range Expansion
  (Header photo: Allen Pleus, Aquatic Invasive Species Unit Lead for Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife with one of the green crab captured in Padilla Bay during the collaborative assessment trapping effort in 2016.) February 6, 2018 The very first publication by Crab Team was just released ...
• Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Anticipate and Adapt to Ocean Change
  April 1, 2018 Read in UW News The productive ocean off Washington state’s Olympic Coast supports an abundant web of life including kelp forests, fish, shellfish, seabirds and marine mammals. The harvest and use of these treaty-protected marine resources have been central to the local tribes’ liv...
• Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Riley Starks, fisherman and co-founder of the Salish Center
  June 3, 2024 By Alison Lorenz, WSG Science Writer Riley Starks with chef and restauranteur Renee Erickson. Photo courtesy of Riley Starks. Riley Starks had never fished a day in his life and had rarely been on the water when he graduated college in 1972. But he had a whole year ahead of him before h...
• 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...
• 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 ...
• Make Whale for Change: New Rules for Whale Watching in the Salish Sea
  From the Autumn 2022 Sea Star New research finds that rules to protect endangered southern resident killer whales could mean less demand for commercial whale watching — but tour operators have options for making up the difference Maddie Hansen, WSG Science Communications Fellow The Salish Sea is a...
• 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...
• 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...
• Update on Sea Grant Funding for 2019 from WSG Interim Director
    June 15, 2018 UPDATE: We are happy to report that the House and Senate have yet again demonstrated strong support for the Sea Grant program.  This week, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee proposed a bill that would fund the National Sea Grant program for fiscal year 2019 at $83 millio...