We deployed 12 baited crab traps in the Raritan Bay yesterday in search of the Chinese Mitten Crab.
Alex Pong ’13 is studying the abundance and distribution of the Chinese Mitten Crab (CMC), an invasive species, in the Raritan River Basin. Since there is very little information on New Jersey populations of this species, we have been searching in the freshwater and oligohaline segments of the river for the CMC over the past few weeks with no sightings. Yesterday, we deployed 12 traps at our 6 sampling stations in the polyhaline Raritan Bay to see what we find! I’ll keep you posted!