Record number of invasive green crab found on Annette Island, potential impacts to subsistence fishing

Record number of invasive green crab found on Annette Island, potential impacts to subsistence fishing

A European Green Crab. (CSIRO Marine Research image via wiki-commons) It was the first sunny morning in days, and two scientists donned in Xtratuf boots carefully strolled along a rocky, grassy shoreline. They were at Settlers Cove on the north end of the Tongass Highway. The duo are no strangers to flipping rocks and looking into puddles for carapaces, or crab shells.   Before long, they located the exoskeleton of a Dungeness crab, which is ind…

Fish and Game concerned about northern spread of invasive green crab

European green crabs, a particularly invasive species known for aggressively displacing native species and damaging important vegetation, have been found on Etolin Island just southwest of Wrangell. A monitoring effort that spans much of Southeast is working to identify and possibly mitigate their continued spread northward. The crabs were first found in Metlakatla in the summer of 2022. Since...