The European green crabs could cause a big problem. They destroy habitat and outcompete native species.
Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game say the monitoring program is crucial in the “We don’t have any reason to believe that European green crab are here or established in the region, but we’re also not currently doing any monitoring,” said Ethan Nichols, the assistant area manager for shellfish with ADF&G in Dutch Harbor.
Tammy Davis is the invasive species program coordinator with the Department of Fish and Game in Juneau. She says European green crabs — Davis said biologists are concerned the species could be introduced into Dutch Harbor through ballast water discharge, or by currents carrying larvae out the Aleutian Chain.
“Whatever ends up in our traps also uses this part of the nearshore. Those are the species that are at risk from green crab,” she said.
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