Communities across the Pacific Northwest have struggled to fight the spread of invasive green crabs. Metlakatla first found the crabs in July, and now their trapping efforts are catching dozens each day.
Carapaces, or shells, from invasive European green crabs found on the beaches of Annette Island this week.
“We’re still trying to figure that out. I mean, right now, we’re just trying to do it internally as much as we can — it’s definitely increased workload for the department,” Winter explained. “But right now, there isn’t any real long term plans as far as moving forward other than what we’re doing. And I mean, we’re going to try to keep those traps in the water in Tamgas Harbor and in other locations as we monitor those areas, too, but short term goal is just keep the traps in the water at Tamgas.
Communities across the Pacific Northwest and the country have struggled to fight the spread of invasive green crabs. Most efforts have focused on trapping as many as possible.in January because of the crab invasion across the state. “We, at this point, have removed more than 170,000 European Green crabs from Washington waters this yearHe said trapping is the only technique that Washington has used against the crabs.
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