[Oberon]

On the plus side, they’re tasty.

[driftdiver]

[central_va]

If they taste good what’s the problem?

[Yashcheritsiy]

Can you eat ‘em?

[relictele]

I worked in the (inland) seafood business for a couple of years.

Tiger shrimp were and are the shrimp equivalent of trash fish but unscrupulous restauranteurs and gullible diners made tiger shrimp popular simply because the stripes made them seem exotic, I suppose.

The best shrimp is a nice pink specimen, preferably from Ecuador.

[1_Rain_Drop]

I don’t understand what the problem is with these black shrimp. Aren’t they edible? Are they on an endangered list?

If they’re predators, wouldn’t it make sense to try to catch as many as possible and eat them? Preserving them for a lab is a waste of food.

[NonValueAdded]

A JUMBO shrimp

[Malone LaVeigh]

I wonder what they'd be like in a shrimp poboy ...

[aruanan]

The giant Black Tiger shrimp that Ron Pockrus caught off the Texas coast might be the biggest threat to the $700 million Gulf shrimp industry to come along in years, marine biologists said.

Yeah, no one will want big shrimp.

If someone really wanted to threaten the Gulf shrimp industry, they could take a very aggressive shrimp and clone in a gene that produces cadaverine.

[wolfcreek]

They look too much like crawdads for me. (allergic)

[piroque]

time for a little

[TheBattman]

So what brought them to the gulf? Those Chinese Oil rig workers drilling the oil in the gulf that Obama won’t let us drill?

[dforest]

I will offer up my plate in the interest of reducing their population and saving an industry.

[flatfish]

Damn, stick one of those suckers on a hook when you’re out fishing and they’ll go get the fish for you. Would probably kick the fishes butt. Don’t know if I’d want to stick my hand in a bait bucket full of those things.

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[Joe Boucher]

“extremely destructive toward native species and could have disastrous effects on the Gulf shrimp ecosystem”???
What I find to have an extremely destructive and disastrous effect on Gulf ecosystems is Gulf Shrimpers dragging their down riggers through gulf sea grass.
But hey, I only fish ther and sail there/

[JRios1968]

"I, for one, welcome our new shrimp overlords..."

[IrishPennant]

Glad ole Pockrus wasn’t around when homo sapien started kickin’ the $hit out of the neanderthal...someone mightta felt compelled to intervene or create an agency to stop it.