This critter may look cute and unassuming, but it's a European Green Crab, an invasive species in Nova Scotia.

#EuropeanGreenCrab #Crab #NorthumberlandStrait #JPegsFolder

#GorgeWaterway Action Society is part of the federal Department of #Fisheries and #Oceans #EuropeanGreenCrab #MonitoringProject.

The local monitoring team caught a few invasive crabs during the Gorge Waterway trapping yesterday. The team is back out, today(Sept. 19) at 10am.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x5-MeifU5FA

This is an ongoing environmental project for our #GorgeWaterwayActionSociety.
https://www.gorge.ca/projects/european-green-crab-monitoring

In association with #DFO - #PacificSalmonFoundation
https://psf.ca/
#PeninsulaStreamsSociety
https://peninsulastreams.ca/
#InvasiveSpeciesCouncilBC
https://bcinvasives.ca/

More info on these #invasive #crabs be found here:
https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/profiles-profils/europeangreencrab-crabevert-eng.html

If you see any of these invasive green crabs - please report them:

Toll-free: 1-888-356-7525
Email: [email protected]

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/plants-animals-ecosystems/invasive-species/reporting-invasive-species

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Local #invasive #EuropeanGreenCrab monitoring team caught a few invasive #crabs during the #GorgeWaterway trapping yesterday. The team is back out on the waterway, today at 10am.

This is an ongoing environmental project for our #GorgeWaterwayActionSociety. In association with #DFO - #PacificSalmonFoundation - #PeninsulaStreamsSociety - #InvasiveSpeciesCouncilBC.

#VictoriaBC #YYJ #Esquimalt #Saanich #BCInvasives #wildlife #ecological #ecosystems #environmental #InvasiveSpeciesProject #Nature #conservation #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #VanIsle #SalishSea #Songhees #ReportInvasiveSpecies #TrackingInvasives #EnvironmentalImpact #ProtectNativeSpecies #stewardship #Environmentalist

I'll be at #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterway /Kinsmen park in a few hours to join the invasive green crab monitoring team. It's another trapping/netting day & I'll be documenting some of the project's work.

[ Since 2022, we have participated in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ European Green Crab Monitoring Project. European green crabs are a destructive invasive species that removes eelgrass very efficiently, destroying habitat for everything else in the Gorge. Unfortunately, we caught adult European green crabs in the Gorge for the first time in August 2024 through our monitoring program.

We are working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Peninsula Streams Society to remove as many as possible before the problem worsens. To prevent the spread of European Green Crabs, make sure to clean, drain, and dry off any watercraft according to BC Invasives. ]

https://www.gorge.ca/projects/european-green-crab-monitoring

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