Crab Team Welcomes Elyse Kelsey as Student Assistant
September 20, 2023
Hello WSG Crab Team Community!
My name is Elyse Kelsey and I am thrilled to be joining Crab Team as a Student Assistant. I just missed the field season this year but I am excited to meet and work alongside the incredible volunteers and partners that make this work possible next su...
Virtual Beach Seine Adventure
Ever wonder who’s living under the waves in Padilla Bay? Not ready for SCUBA? Join this online program with Padilla Bay staff. You’ll watch from your screen as they take our rowboat out into the eelgrass and pull a net through the water. You’ll help discover who was caught and lear...
Crew School
“Crew School” is designed to provide fundamental commercial fishing crew member training; in the classroom, aboard commercial fishing vessels and in the historic Ancich Netshed on Gig Harborâs waterfront. Two Washington Sea Grant U.S. Coast Guard approved safety-training courses are in...
Sowing (Clam) Seed for the Indigenous Aquaculture Leaders of Tomorrow
From the winter 2021â2022 Sea Star print newsletter
How the Cross-Pacific Regional Collaborative Hub for Indigenous Aquaculture fosters student participation, research and communications
By MaryAnn Wagner, WSG Assistant Director for Communications
A participant of the Cross-Pacific Regional Coll...
To See a World in an Oysterâs Shell
To See a World in an Oysterâs ShellÂ
WSG Social Scientist Melissa Poe shows how shellfish are central to tribal harvestersâ sense of being and belonging.
By Lauren Drakopulos, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Sense of place is something weâve all experienced, ...
Itâs Not Easy Seeing Green
Itâs Not Easy Seeing Green
Crab, that is. Washington Sea Grant launches a concerted monitoring effort to make sure elusive, habitat-wrecking European green crab havenât penetrated Puget Sound.
By Annie Hillier, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Donât be fooled by th...
2019 Volume 1
2019 Volume 1
The “Team” in Crab Team
June 3, 2019
It’s difficult to believe, but Washington Sea Grant Crab Team has officially launched our fifth year of monitoring. It’s easy for us to reflect on the number of green crab, monitoring...
Gardening Green sustainable landscaping class
Gardening Green provides practical information and simple yet powerful actions to protect the environment and human health. This is a relaxed, fun class that incorporates presentations, demonstrations, hands-on experiences, a native plant walk, and tours of sustainable landscapes. By the end of cl...
Seabird Bycatch – Trawl
Trawl
Trawling is a commercial fishing technique that involves pulling a cone-shaped net through the water to catch species like pollock, flatfish and cod. Studies of trawl fisheries indicate that seabird collisions with trawl cables can result in significan...
NW Workshop on Bivalve Aquaculture and the Environment: Agenda
NW Workshop on Bivalve Aquaculture and the Environment
Talaris Conference Center
4000 NE 41st Street
Seattle, WA 98105
Workshop Home
Note: The materials available on this page (PDFs) were presented by speakers at the Northwest Workshop on Bivalve Aquaculture and the Environment at Talaris Conferenc...
NOAA Open House
Explore your world and learn more about how NOAA – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – works to understand and predict changes in Earthâs environment to help protect people and property and to conserve and manage coastal and marine resources.
Join us at the Western Re...
Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Hazel Secor from Cape Flattery Fishermenâs Co-Op
April 29, 2022
By Benjamin Haagen, Science Communications Fellow
Hazel Secor has been working as manager of the Cape Flattery Fishermanâs Co-op in Neah Bay, Washington since 2014, supporting the local fishing industry and working with fishers to process and distribute seafood to communities aroun...
Who Will Rescue the Rescuers?
Who Will Rescue the Rescuers?
Washington Sea Grant alerts the Coast Guardâs first responders to the critical danger they will face when a tsunami strikes.
Coast Guard airmen and seamen muster to hear Ian Miller share some inconvenient truths about tsunami dangers.
It was a crisp, bright ...
A Career Saving Seabirds
From the autumn 2019 Sea Star print newsletter
Looking back on the work of marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin upon his retirement
âIâve never had an ornithology class in my life,â Ed Melvin confides on a sunny afternoon sitting by Seattleâs Portage Bay. For anyone familiar with Me...
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 Debra Paros, Michael Anderson, Kes Tautvydas, and Charlie Seablom. (Photo: E. Grason)
Following the recent capture of a single European green crab at Lagoon Point, on Whidbey Island (read m...