date:May 31, 2012
ic point is thatinvasive species are bad. We may be on the verge of seeing a big
increase in this species in the Southeast and Gulf Coast, and wedon't know what the long-term impacts of that would be. So whatwould happen?
Like its smaller cousins, tiger shrimp is a bottom feeder,nibbling detritus, small plants and animals. The giant ones,though, can eat larger creatures and tend to be more carnivorousthan native shrimp. Their extraordinary size is one of thebiggest wild cards in trying to predi