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IRL (In Real Life) => Current Events => Topic started by: MIGMaster on April 27, 2012, 06:57:33 AM

Title: Giant Cannibal Shrimp
Post by: MIGMaster on April 27, 2012, 06:57:33 AM
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/26/scientists-giant-cannibal-shrimp-invasion-growing/?hpt=hp_c3
Title: Re: Giant Cannibal Shrimp
Post by: Shelldrake on April 27, 2012, 07:24:20 AM
Yum....lobster-sized shrimp...gonna need a lot of marinara sauce!  :)
Title: Re: Giant Cannibal Shrimp
Post by: LongBlade on April 27, 2012, 08:26:00 AM
Here's the problem:

Quote"Are they competing with or preying on native shrimp," Fuller asked. "It's also very disease-prone."
Title: Re: Giant Cannibal Shrimp
Post by: MIGMaster on April 27, 2012, 09:29:42 AM
I'm pushing for Fisheries and Oceans (or whatever they're called these days) to battle them with specficically programmed terminator shrimp. I just fired the e-mail off to Steve (as Dubya called him) Harper.
Title: Re: Giant Cannibal Shrimp
Post by: Martok on April 27, 2012, 10:18:01 AM
Quote from: LongBlade on April 27, 2012, 08:26:00 AM
Here's the problem:

Quote"Are they competing with or preying on native shrimp," Fuller asked. "It's also very disease-prone."
Yeah, I caught that part too.  Definitely a bit worrying. 

Title: Re: Giant Cannibal Shrimp
Post by: Centurion40 on April 27, 2012, 10:22:49 AM
Yeah, but it also said this:

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"They're supposed to be very good. But they can get very large, sorta like lobsters," Fuller said.

Pigs used to be disease prone too.  Just sayin'.