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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oh hell yeah...
Democrat fascist illegal alien crabs from the north. Just what we need.
As people leave God nature turns against them in many, many ways.
Just corral their path into a sort of weir, tie their claws, and display them under black light in tanks in seafood restaurants. That’ll take the fight right out of ‘em.
A casus belli against Canada?
Or just a caustic belly?
Wow, they look like some big tasty meaty specimens.
Hang the husks as a warning to the rest.
(sung: *STILLLL ARRROOOUUUNNNND*)
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Now you’ve gone and done it!!!
Those were the final words on a novelty 45 rpm in the mid-1950s, that had supposed reporters interviewing people regarding flying saucers and the little beings in them.
The record pieced together short clips from many other recorded songs to provide a narrative. We early-mid teens memorized all the words and songs and would sing along.
Now, I can’t think of the name of the record and Google didn’t help. Maybe my subconcious will solve the problem when I sleep.
Hey, if they taste good, they'd probably work well as a aquaculture product line -- "farm-grown Nova Scotian green crabs!"
Sorry, that tends to happen when I’m around.
What? Green crabs? We use them for bait. We eat Blue crabs ( we call them blue-claw crabs here in NY).
I remember those novelty mash-up songs!
The narrator would make a statement or ask a queston and then use a song snippet to respond/answer.
We used to make our own when we got our first cassette tape recorder.
Wow, if you remember those songs then you are OOOLLLLDDD!!!! (lol)
The actual song — I think — was “Good night Sweetheart” which Sha Na Na used to end their show with.
Meaningless Note (which is de riguer here on the UT): I saw an interview with Bowser in a Reelz show about “Grease” the other say so I guess he is still kicking around.
Sound like lobstrosities.
Hideous things.
They must be punished.
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