European Green Crab Research Paper

The European Green crab is a non-native, invasive species. Some other names for it include Carcinus Maenas and the Littoral crab. The Carcinus Maenas is native to the Atlantic coast of Europe and Northern Africa. Around the 1800’s it first arrived in the USA. By the 1900’s it began spreading northwest. Therefore, it had the most impact on Washington state. It first entered coming from a sailing ship that was coming from the Cape cod area. The Green crab has a pretty big range in the USA. Green Crabs range from the west coast such as San Francisco Bay and Washington state. This extends all the way up in areas such as Maine. It is considered to be a problem because it is competing and consuming, and preying on other organisms such as clams,