West coast states are spending millions to protect their inland waterways from invasive crabs. In some places, otters are ...

A recent study found sea otters are eating thousands of green crabs at a California reserve, reducing the invasive species’ population.

A crab became a snack for a sea predator with “stinging tentacles” on an Oregon shoreline, a photo shows. The crustacean was ...

The otters’ impacts on the green crab population became apparent around 2010, Jeppesen said. In 2014, a researcher was grabbing crabs from traps when he witnessed a sea otter consume about 30 ...

Workers with the Elkhorn Slough show off a green crab. Researchers recently published ... by the current sea otter population. “We set traps and are delighted that we no longer catch large ...

But a recent big development could help turn the situation around this spring. It centers on experimental crab traps that could produce a whale-safe catch, while keeping the industry climate ready.

When we set the traps in the same place today we’ll get under ten and often not even five," Jeppesen said. Green crab abundance was consistently lowest in Elkhorn Slough, the only California ...

The season there has been halted due to poor quality crab, but that being said, the newest release states that the season there will begin on Wednesday, January 15, under a 25 percent trap reduction.