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Western Washington University highlights Makah Tribe green crab trapping

Dawson Little, an EGC biologist with the Makah Tribe’s Fisheries Management Marine Ecology Division and a graduate student at Western Washington University (WWU), is investigating whether river otters could serve as a natural control for the invasive crabs threatening coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. His research focuses on analyzing otter scat to determine if green crabs are part of their diet, which could suggest that otters play a role in managing crab populations through predation.