Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre, New South Wales

Volunteers Protect our Coast from Crab Menace $19,132 to a program addressing the Introduced Pest Crab Species in Twofold Bay www.edenmarinediscovery.org.au

The program aims to help the local community to maintain Green Shore Crab populations below critical thresholds.

The Green Shore Crab (Carcinus maenus) is a voracious predator with a broad diet that has been implicated in the decline in shellfish populations, including the Sydney Rock Oyster on the NSW Far South Coast. This project, which got under way in mid-2009, will build on the outcomes of a 2007 pilot project in which local volunteers were trained to trap crabs, record data and monitor a site in Twofold Bay (Fisheries Creek). The program will now be refined and control methods implemented to build the capacity of both indigenous and non-indigenous community members to maintain Green Shore Crab populations below critical thresholds.

The George Alexander Foundation

ABN 58 451 731 162

Level 3, 111 Collins Street

Melbourne VIC 3000

Telephone 03 9650 3188

Email admin@gafoundation.org.au www.gafoundation.org.au