Posted on 09/20/2018 9:55:40 AM PDT by ETL
Angry green crabs from Nova Scotia, angrier than their already ornery green cousins in Maine, are migrating south. They have started to destroy the coastal ecosystem off the shores of Maine, as they eat more than their share of soft-shell clams and wreck native eel grass, according to research from Markus Frederich, a professor at the University of New England.
"What we're seeing is this insane level of aggressiveness," Frederich told the Associated Press.
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Louis Logan, a University of New England graduate student, had the unpleasant task of labeling the crabs captured from Nova Scotia waters for the research.
The crabs were in no mood for games.
At a distance of 5 feet, the pint-sized brutes assumed a fighting posture. Those that grabbed him were in no hurry to let go.
"Any time I went down to grab one they went to grab me instead," he wrote in an email.
One of them, in particular, would jump out of the water in its frenzy to attack.
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The quarrelsome newcomers currently comprise only about 2 to 3 percent of green crabs crawling on the ocean floor off Maine, but those numbers are certain to grow, Frederich said.
"It will be an entirely different ball game," he predicted. "It's just a question of when more of the crabs come and out-compete the Maine green crabs."
Eventually, the newcomers will move farther southward. "We can't do anything about it," he said. "The only thing that we can do is learn how to live with it."
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Love Fallout! Not happy with the 76 that’s coming out. I watch my kid play it.
Directed by the king of the B movies, Roger Corman.
IIRC, even that meat can't compare to any part of the blue crab's.
But, relatively good, all the same, as least in sandwiches.
Or mudcrabs from Skyrim.
Old Bay seasoning would go a long way towards solving this problem.
Angry crabs? The article does not blame Global Warming, or Trump, or the Russians for this. Therefore it must be fake news. Probably made up by some Deplorable.
That's the important question. If they are comparable to Chesapeake Blue Crabs then, YUM.
Just like Third Worlders, now Democrats
Invasive, angry, destructive, enemies of the innocent
Oh yeah, and ugly
What are they so crabby about?
Ya know, there is/was a nuke plant in Nova Scotia...
Absolutely PRICELESS!!!! Good one.
Undead Thread level of weird ping.
“What are they so crabby about?”
Females?
They just don’t make movies like that any more.......................
Trump, of course... Just like all the other greenies.
Great Flaming Wolf Spiders!!!
“Green???” - BJ Clinton
CLAWS!
Angry crabs terrorize a small New England resort community.
Ah, yes. Weirdness noted. Can we move early? Pleeeze?
Impressive and it pinches
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