What is the State of Your Oyster?
Are your oysters healthy? WSG volunteers provide landowners evaluations of bacterial contamination for privately owned beaches in Hood Canal and throughout Puget Sound at these locations:
Hunter Farms
1921 E. State Route 106, Union, WA
QFC parking lot, under flag pole – pharmacy side – ...
Test Your Well Water with Well Education & Testing (WET)
Well Education & Testing (WET) invites you to take a look at the health of your well! Learn about keeping your drinking water safe.
WET, a Washington Sea Grant program, provides homeowners with a local, inexpensive way to test their well water.
Washington State Department of Health recommends an...
National Seafood Month: Grilled Shrimp Satay
October 11, 2021
By Lucia Davids, WSG Student Assistant
This week’s feature for National Seafood Month is grilled shrimp satay. If you’re looking to keep things as sustainable as possible in your kitchen, Oregon pink shrimp is highly recommended. As a preparation consideration, let i...
Get Involved With Crab Team
Get Involved With Crab Team
Volunteer Toolbox
Crab Team estimates that there are more than 400 sites in Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the San Juan Islands possessing at least one suitable habitat feature for European green crabs.
That is many more than ...
2018 European Green Crab Season Update
November 1, 2018
The turning of the leaves signals a winding-down of green crab trapping activities. Just as it feels right to us to hunker down and stay warm, cooler water temperatures also cause green crab to become less catchable in the fall and winter. Crab Team monitors have pulled and stored t...
2018 Volume 1
2018 Volume 1
Back Out in the Mud
February 28th, 2018
Last month we launched Washington Sea Grant Crab Team’s third official monitoring season. After a successful and fun month of training workshops in March, all 225+ volunteer and partner monitors are alr...
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...
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...
Crab Team Takes Willapa Bay by Storm: Part 2
November 8, 2016
This series of three posts was originally written in August, but was pre-empted by the news of European green crab captures on San Juan Island and in Padilla Bay. Better late than never, here are our field notes on green crab trapping in Willapa Bay during August of this year. Rea...
Bellingham SeaFeast
Join for a celebration of Bellingham’s legacy maritime heritage, bustling working waterfront, internationally-renowned fishing & seafood industries, unsurpassed culinary bounty, and top-drawer regional entertainment.
Plan now to stay overnight and attend (admission is free). You’ll catch the...
Protocol in Focus: How do we steward Crab Team sites?
In addition to creating a scientifically robust sampling scheme, and one that is sensitive to finding green crab when they are rare, Crab Team also put a great deal of thought and guidance into the protocol with the goal of being good stewards of Washington’s shorelines. Even though our goal ...
Ocean Acidification
Ocean Acidification
The oceans’ absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is causing fundamental changes in seawater chemistry. CO2 reacts with water to form carbonic acid, which makes seawater more acidic. This process, known as ocean acidification (or OA) ha...
European Green Crab
Invasive European Green Crab
The European green crab (Carcinus maenas) is a small shore crab whose native distribution is in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea, ranging along coasts from northern Africa to Norway and Iceland. The crab is an effective predator, adept at opening biva...
Maritime Discovery Schools Initiative
Port Townsend maritime education
Maritime Discovery Schools Initiative
Project supported an initiative of Port Townsend Schools and marine professionals to integrate maritime skills and at-sea experience into local K-12 educational curricula.
Principal Investigator
Sarah Rube...
2022 Volume 1
2022 Volume 1
A Green Crab Emergency
August 17, 2022
As the long radio silence might imply, things have been busy since our last newsletter in the fall of 2021. Last winter, several emergency declarations related to green crab, including Lummi Nation, Shoalw...