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Blue Crabs Invade French Waters | France News
In southern France, local fishers are forming a guerrilla force called the “blue crab Sentinels” to battle an invasive American blue crab invasion that’s decimating oyster farms and fish stocks across Occitanie. These aggressive crabs, likely introduced via ship ballast, have exploded in numbers over the past decade, thriving in low-salinity waters worsened by climate change. Fishers target female crabs to stop them from laying up to eight million eggs each, while scientists scramble to understand the boom. Meanwhile, efforts to turn these abundant, edible crabs into a European…
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