Abstract
Has the green crab population changed over the course of six years? To determine this we got our data by casting the circular base traps in the waters of Reid State Park, Todds Landing, and Fort Popham. We also measured the crabs by gender, size, and color. With this crab data we can estimate the amount of change overtime. The importance of this information helps us see how much the invasive population of green crabs have grown. The huge wave of these new green crabs can have terrorizing nature to the local marine habitats with their aggressive behavior against other marine species and destroying the local water habitats of surrounding marshes such as eelgrass beds. The end result of this experiment indicates that the green crab population has stayed at the same high level and increased overtime. For example, Fort Popham with 331 crabs from all three traps, with a calculated value of 110 per trap. And with 2015 data being 165, with a calculated value of 82.
Recommended Citation
L, Samuel
(2022)
"The Green Crab Population through 2015-2021, and How It Changed,"
Findings from the Field: Vol. 5, Article 14.
Available at:
https://findings.gmri.org/journal/vol5/iss1/14