date:May 31, 2012
theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's NationalCenters for Coastal Ocean Science in Beaufort, NC. When you seea sharp jump like that, it's a first alarm that we may be seeingan invasion.
North Carolina's coast is the northern limit of the tigershrimp's invasive range. They can't live in water that's coolerthan about 55 degrees, Morris said. The first of the oversizedcrustaceans caught there was landed in 2006 in the PamlicoSound, according to Geological Survey records. Since then,