Join the New Hampshire Green Crab Project to search the coast for green crabs! Volunteers will contribute to a study evaluating the potential for a commercial fishery to help control this invasive species.
Celebrate Great Bay Estuary with Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve! National Estuaries Week, a time to celebrate the importance of estuaries and all they give to us, is just around the corner, and we have a fun week planned. Each weekday, September 21st through the 25th, we will have a different event to help us enjoy and honor Great Bay. Art, science, nature, and more…there is something for everyone!
On Wednesday, September 2, the Great Bay Discovery Center will hold its annual fall educator training at the Hugh Gregg Coastal Conservation Center, 89 Depot Road in Greenland, NH, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The training includes a complete run through of the actual school program offered mid-September through early November to students in the Seacoast region and throughout…
Join the New Hampshire Green Crab Project to search the coast for green crabs! Volunteers will contribute to a study evaluating the potential for a commercial fishery to help control this invasive species.
The tide is out this morning at Hilton Park at Dover Point, where the Piscataqua, Squamscott, Bellamy, Oyster and Lamprey rivers meet. It’s also where the invasive European green crab congregates. A small group has gathered among the wet, sandy rocks and thick piles of bulky algae to find the crabs, which hide underneath heavy seaweed, soft mud and rock…