Newfoundland Fishermen Asked to Help DFO With Project to Fight Invasive Green Crab Populations
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Southern Gazette] by Paul Herridge - September 23, 2016
Green crab may have a toehold in Fortune Bay, but harvesters in the area are hoping they can stop the invasive sea-bottom dwellers in their tracks.
After reports of the species popped up in the spring of 2015, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) undertook some baseline work to determine how extensive the green crabs were in the bay.
Harvesters were tapped to help out by catching the crabs and collecting some data, and have been involved in other efforts since then to prevent their spread...
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