Oras Island: Invasive Green Crab Training

Join us at East Sound Waterfront Park! We will practice our crab identification skills and do some molt surveys together in the field. Please register if you would like to attend this in-person event. Limited Capacity.

Please register for the mandatory classroom training on June 12: Virtual: Invasive Green Crab Training before this in-field training. If you have questions please email Jess Newley, Commuity Science and Edication Director at Friends of the San Juans, jess@sanjuans.org.

Invasive European green crabs are voracious eaters that threaten our shellfish beds, clamming beaches, and nearshore habitat for salmon. Join Friends of the San Juans and Molt Search in this effort to monitor our beaches for signs of European green crab presence by searching for their molts. This 1.5 hour workshop will teach you how to identify the crab molts, where and how to conduct a 20-minute Molt Search survey, how to report your findings using a mobile app, and how to collect additional (optional) data on Dungeness crab molts.

The detection of European green crab molts could be an early indicator of the presence of European green crab in the area.  If community scientists, volunteers, shoreline landowners, and beachgoers knew what to look for, they could provide valuable information that would help to guide future Crab Team monitoring and trapping efforts.