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Puget Sound crabbing catch sparks community identification effort

A Puget Sound crabber's catch has sparked a community-wide effort to identify a specimen, turning a single find into a collaborative data point. This kind of citizen-driven observation, grounded in curiosity and a willingness to share, builds the kind of baseline knowledge that formal science often lacks. It mirrors the approach in our related piece on crowdsourced coral identification, where public input reveals gaps in open ocean data. Small, validated contributions add up to measurable ocean intelligence.