date:May 31, 2012
There has been a surge in catches in North Carolina and the restof the Southeast of the Asian tiger shrimp, a Pacific and IndianOcean species that can grow more than a foot long and weighnearly a pound.
Along the Gulf Coast and South Atlantic, catches increased from32 in 2010 to 331 last year, according to the U.S. GeologicalSurvey. We've been monitoring it for some time, and in 2011 wesaw several major increases in the Southeast, said JamesMorris, an ecologist who studies invasive species for