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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Eat em trey, by the trayful.
Sharia Crab Warning!!
Call Captain Sig Hansen immediately. Problem solved.
Shoot... No more skinny dipping!
Angry Green Crabs. I think I saw them at a rock concert back around 1971.
Nothing to worry about, the water is really cold up there......
There is a lot of good meat in the body.
And their sounds are something like “all halu ack barr”
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Strange noises coming from a crab
Like democrats...er, I mean chicken!
I don't think that crabs can shart.
Regards,
tired&retired wrote:
“What are they so crabby about?”
Females?
“I used to wake up crabby every morning, until I discovered it was better to let her sleep in”.
~Rodney Dangerfield~
If they’re moving south wouldn’t that mean the climate is COOLING? Whenever a southern species moves north one county we are told it’s because of AGW.
Absolutely right about the weirdness level.
Don’t mess with that!
“Ya know, there is/was a nuke plant in Nova Scotia...”
Not NS. There is one in New Brunswick - Point Lepreau - which is right across the Bay of Fundy from NS.
> “HE’S GOT A KNIFE!!”
Don’t bring a knife to a boiling pot fight.
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