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Invasion of the Tiger Prawns

January 6, 2012 5:00 am by: Brian Baresch

This tiger prawn was caught near Little Lake in Larose, La. Photo courtesy Jim GossenThis tiger prawn was caught near Little Lake in Larose, La. Photo courtesy Jim Gossen

Huge shrimp-like creatures that can grow over a foot long are showing up in nets all along the Gulf Coast.  It might sound like a tasty surprise, but as KUT’s Mose Buchele reports for StateImpact Texas, it’s also a mystery at sea that could threaten the ecosystem of the entire Gulf of Mexico.

“We have some concerns that they’ll be active predators on our shrimp and crabs. … It won’t be nice for the ecology. Our fish are not designed to eat foot-long shrimp,” said one researcher.

You can visit this story on the StateImpact Texas website.

 

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One Response to “Invasion of the Tiger Prawns”

  1. On January 7, 2012 at 11:55 am PRGBrzy responded with... #

    See what happens when you don’t teach evolution? You have researchers who think our fish have been “designed”!

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