{"id":338636,"date":"2025-12-09T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338636\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:41:11","slug":"a-second-sighting-of-this-invasive-species-has-oregon-wildlife-officials-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338636\/","title":{"rendered":"A second sighting of this invasive species has Oregon wildlife officials concerned"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Chinese mitten crab was discovered in the Willamette River near the Sellwood Bridge in late November, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said. It\u2019s at least the second <\/a>sighting of the invasive species<\/a> in Oregon this year. <\/p>\n

State officials are working with the federal government, Portland State University and other agencies to investigate whether more of the 3-inch crabs are living in the Willamette.<\/p>\n

Chinese mitten crabs, which live in freshwater, could impact Oregon\u2019s fish and crayfish populations by eating local species or fish eggs and competing for food, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says. Oregon\u2019s native crabs live along the coast. <\/p>\n

\"AThe Chinese mitten crab lives its adult life in freshwater, while Oregon’s native crabs live along the coast. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife<\/p>\n

The agency previously warned that the crabs \u201ccaused significant infrastructure and ecological damage in and around San Francisco Bay when the population was at its height in the late 1990s.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are illegal to have or to sell in Oregon. <\/p>\n

Mitten crabs can be identified by several distinctive features: a notch between the eyes, four spines on each side of the carapace and hairy mitten-like claws. The crabs\u2019 color varies from greenish-brown to brownish-orange, according to an agency news release.<\/p>\n

Anyone who catches a Chinese mitten crab is asked to report it with the location to 1-866-INVADER or through an online invasive species<\/a> hotline. <\/p>\n

– Kjerstin Gabrielson contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese mitten crab was discovered in the Willamette River near the Sellwood Bridge in late November, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-338636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}