Sunday, August 30, 2009

Dungeness crab caught off New England

Via the Gloucester Daily Times
West Coast crab shows up off Cape Ann
For the second time in three years, a Gloucester fisherman has caught and landed an adult male Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) off Cape Ann.

Could this commercially important West Coast crab be the Northeast coast's new invasive animal? And how did it get here in the first place?

Read the entire story from Gloucester Daily Times
Read the ScienceDaily account of the 2006 occurrence.

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