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Giant cannibal shrimp worry Gulf Coast watchers
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the Gulf of Mexico, a new menace, this one striped like a big cat, is preying on aquatic life: The black tiger shrimp.
The biggest saltwater shrimp in the world, black tigers “are cannibalistic as are other shrimp but it’s larger so it can consume the others,” Tony Reisinger, country extension agent for the Texas Sea Grant Extension Service, told CNN on Friday.
Because of the threat of disease, the predatory intruder poses a problem for the native shrimp and oyster population of the Gulf, Reisinger said.
"Our oystermen right now are hurting because the oyster season is shut down due to a red tide. But this (black tiger) shrimp poses other concerns,” he said.
Appearing more than 25 years ago, the black tiger’s sudden reappearance is a mystery.
“The first time they started appearing was in the late 1980s on the East Coast,” he said. “Then they disappeared in 1991.”
But following the record-breaking hurricane season of 2005, which brought successive monster storms Katrina, Rita and Wilma, they started showing up again, he said.
“They’re well over 1,000 of them in the Gulf of Mexico now,” he said. “We’ve had five of them caught off Texas.”
Reisinger said he spoke to the Brownsville-Port Isabel Shrimp Producers Association recently to warn them about the shrimp but he was too late.
“It turns our fishermen have been catching them for a while, but they didn’t think they were marketable so they were throwing them back,” he said.
Is there a harvestable population already established in the Gulf? What does that mean for the Louisiana and South Texas shrimp and oyster industry? Many questions remain, Reisinger said.
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I suspect somehow this will be attributed to 'Global Warming' or 'Climate Change' or 'Overpopulation' or just general badness by humans.
I mean, after all ... WE are the reason ANYTHING bad happens ... except of course, unless you are one of 'enlightened'
Shut up.
I know, I mean, sure we add about 1 BILLION more people to the planet every 12 years, and released 66 trillion pounds of CO2 into the air through burning of fossil fuels, how could we have any effect on this big old planet??? (That's CO2 release in 2010 alone, and that gas sticks around for a long time, 100 year or more half life).
Yes, please shut up.
These are Pacific Ocean shrimp, so yes, somehow people are ultimately responsible for them being in the Atlantic. Perhaps as far back as the digging of the Panama Canal.
I read recently that a company in the midwest in the desert of all places is able to farm shrimp inland.Seems like the thing to do is catch these 1000 or so shrimp and farm raise them. I would love to try some giant shrimp. Lets feed the world with giant shrimp! Shrimply delicious!
farm raised seafood is BAD for you.
Sara, it depends on the methods, the species, and the location. Unlike open ocean fish farms that are may be positioned close to the shore where currents are weakest and pollution is greatest, shrimp are farmed in ponds where tight control over water quality can be ensured. So, if anything, farmed shrimp are safer to eat than wild shrimp.
Do they taste like shrimp?
"Thizz – Do they taste like shrimp?"
No, they taste like chicken.
Carletta don't let me eats no skrimps
Yer missin sumpin.
their srimps man, sheeesh , dontcha know how to talk Cajun? hahahha
Bet they would make great cat food!
can you say uber gout?
...Buber snout.
I'm doing it wrong, aren't I?
Black Tiger Shrimp have been available as food for a while...those shrimp in the store you see marketed as "COLOSSAL"...those are them. These people are only worried because they think they can be detrimental to other species of shrimp and small marine life.
These are NOT Colossul shrimp. Did you even look at the above illustration. This particular species is close to one foot long.
Looks delicious. If they taste good, we can count on humans to overfish them to extinction.
good one – nature's checks and balances, as it were. You'll go far here, Son.
It isn't right to call anything over 10 inches a shrimp.
That's what she said!
Now that's an oxymoron.
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I love everything you say, man !!!!!!
That's about it...
BP much?
Hot Diggitty !! Can you say "REAL BIG BAR-B-QUE" ??? I knew that you could !
I think they should catch 'em and make dog food out of 'em.
Simple solution, eat them to extinction.