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 ...

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 orange buoys, ...

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, ...

University of New Hampshire researchers aim to create a green crab market to target the East Coast's green crab invasion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

European green crab have been found in Dungeness Spit and pose a threat to native marine life. Allen Pleus Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife A growing number of invasive European green crab ...

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 ...

Most people wouldn't be afraid of a crab the size of a shirt button. Ron Figlar-Barnes is. The state biologist worries that the baby European green crab he found last spring — in addition to more than ...