GMRI - Vital Signs Lesson #4

Research Jigsaw Directions:

• Assign each member of your fieldwork team one type of crab to focus on.
• Work with other students in the class that share your same type of crab to find helpful resources and share information.
• When you have completed your research, share what you learned with your fieldwork team.
• Work with your fieldwork team to answer the “Reflect/Think” ahead questions, using the information you gathered.

Resources look through these resources first, and then do your own searching to find the information that you need.

Green crabs:

Maine Clammer’s Association: http://maineclammers.org/what-we-do/freeport-leads-in-fight-to-stop-green-crab-invasion/

Interview with Marissa McMahan, Mission Intertidal Crab scientist: https://www.inc.com/emily-canal/green-crab-invasive-species.html

Green crab video

Asian shore crabs:
Interview with Elizabeth Stephenson, Mission Intertidal Crab scientist:







Maine’s Department of Marine Resources: - https://www.maine.gov/dmr/science-research/species/invasives/asian-shore-crab.html

Eat the invaders: , http://eattheinvaders.org/blue-plate-special-asian-shore-crab/



Native crabs (Rock crab and Jonah crab):

Jonah crab species information: http://www.asmfc.org/species/jonah-crab

Rock crab species information: https://www.fishaq.gov.nl.ca/research_development/fdp/pdf/rock_crab.pdf

Maine’s Native crab seafood: https://modernfarmer.com/2018/09/how-new-englands-jonah-crab-turned-from-garbage-to-delicacy/