Two Bills Would Create Licenses for Invasive Green Crab Trapping. Are the Rules Needed?
PROVIDENCE – Green crabs are an invasive scourge on both the East and West coasts, increasing their territory farther north to Maine and New Brunswick, and even to British Columbia and Alaska.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency described them as "one of the most invasive species in the marine environment," as they out compete local species for food and habitat, destroying eel grass by burrowing into it, and eating the larval and juvenile forms of many key species, including blue mussels...
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