No green crabs have ever been observed in Puget Sound south of Whidbey Island. On the outer coast, at the tip of the Olympic Peninsula, Makah Tribe technicians caught 1,000 green crabs in 2020, ...

Living in the Puget Sound-area, you likely know a lot about crabs — even if your knowledge is just limited to what they look like and your favorite ways to eat them.

The state and tribal Puget Sound Dungeness crab fisheries landed a total of 11.8 million pounds in 2015, exceeding the previous year’s record by 1.2 million pounds.

A crab pot is the most commonly used gear to catch Dungeness crab in Puget Sound. You can buy or make pots made up of wrapping netting over an iron frame. They must have one or two funnel-shaped ...

ANACORTES — An invasion has begun in Padilla Bay, with European green crabs infiltrating the mudflats and settling in among native shore crabs. Menu Subscribe Login My Account Customer Service ...

On a cloudy Friday morning, a group of volunteers huddled on the shore of the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve ...

The 2023 Puget Sound summer crab-fishing season is now underway. It started July 1. A crab biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife says the boat ramp in Everett on opening day was ...

Washington wildlife officials are finding fewer European Green Crabs in the Puget Sound region. More than 1 million of the crabs were removed from Washington waters in 2024.

Crunching along the rocky beach Tuesday, Easton pointed out a host of brightly colored starfish, squishy anemones, sand dollars, snails, crabs, worms, algae and horse clams that spit water several ...

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 ...

European green crabs are considered to be one of the world’s worst invasive species and a significant threat to the health of ... the Puget Sound and Salish Sea have more than 2,000 miles of ...