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Status of the European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, in Oregon and Washington coastal estuaries in 2019

Creator:

Yamada, Sylvia Behrens, Schooler, Shon, Heller, Renee, Donaldson, Luke, Takacs, Graham T., Randall, Andrea, Buffington, Chelsey, and Akmajian, Adrianne

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The European green crab (Carcinus maenas) has persisted in Oregon and Washington coastal estuaries since the late 1990s. After the arrival of a strong year class in 1998, significant recruitment to the populations occurred only in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Warm winter water temperatures,...

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Technical Report

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For data on individual crabs see: Yamada, S. B., Schooler, S., Heller, R., Donaldson, L., Takacs
Status of the European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, (aka 5-spine crab) in Oregon Estuaries. Report for 2022

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Yamada, Sylvia Behrens, Royer, Cameron, Schooler, Shon, Flitcroft, Rebecca, Vance, Mitch, Randall, Andrea, and Fisher, Jennifer

Abstract:

The European green crab (Carcinus maenas) has persisted in Oregon and Washington coastal estuaries since the late 1990s. A strong year class arrived during the 1998 El Niño, but numbers decreased and remained below 1 per trap per day until the arrival of the 2015-2016 El Niño. Since then, numbers...

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Technical Report

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(Lafferty and Kuris 1996, Jamieson et al. 1998, Behrens Yamada et al. 2010). On the West Coast