June 2024
Salish Sea-wide Molt Blitz!
Washington Sea Grant and Washington State University Extension have teamed up to launch a new volunteer-based early detection program to complement the existing Crab Team monitoring network. Already trained? Stop by your local shoreline on June 20th to complete a Molt Search independently, contributing to Washington's largest single-day dataset on molt distribution across the Salish Sea. Need to get trained or want to participate with others? Shorelines across the region will be activated by local partners on June 20th (or…
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Salish Sea-wide Molt Blitz!
Molt Search is a program by Washington Sea Grant, with partnership from Washington State University Extension and many local partner organizations. By participating you can help monitor shorelines across Washington for invasive European green crabs and native Dungeness crabs by following a simple protocol: a timed collection of all molts on the shore, submitted via MyCoast. Find out more at wsg.washington.edu/moltsearch What's a Molt Blitz? The goal is to create the largest single-day dataset on molts across inland Washington. Can we…
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