PROVIDENCE – Green crabs are an invasive scourge on both the East and West coasts, increasing their territory farther north to Maine and New Brunswick, and even to British Columbia and Alaska. A South ...

Last year saw some unwelcome firsts on the North Olympic Peninsula with the invasive European green crab. While most captures typically occur in the spring and summer for Makah Fisheries Management, ...

Apr. 16—Perched on a raised stool aboard a small metal boat, Alexa Brown pushed down on a long throttle, kicking up sea spray as a large fan spun to life. Brown eased the boat toward a string of ...

Researchers with Washington Sea Grant confirmed the first-ever detection of European green crabs in the northern Whidbey ...

As Washington’s coastal Dungeness crab commercial season opens this week — a mean, green menace continues to threaten to create a “crab crisis” in the Pacific Northwest. KIRO Newsradio’s Kate Stone ...

SEQUIM — State agencies and resource management groups report more than 1 million European green crabs were removed from ...

Some little crabs with big appetites are getting the attention of Washington’s shellfish industry. Washington has the most productive shellfish farms in the nation. It’s a more than $200 million ...

Invasive European green crabs have likely found a lasting home in Washington’s coastal waters and parts of Puget Sound. The question now is whether the state can pinch down hard enough on the aquatic ...

SEQUIM, Wash. - A team with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has captured seven more invasive green crabs on the Dungeness Spit on the northern edge of the Olympic Peninsula. The Peninsula Daily ...

LA PUSH — European green crabs have been detected for the first time in the Quillayute River estuary. A joint survey conducted by the Quileute Tribe, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, the ...