I live in jacksonville near the mayport shrimping village. They have been catching small numbers of the tiger shrinp for several years now. No notable large increas in numbers. Little differant than that article reads. But scare tacktics make for good reading. I read that a college in NC lost a bunch out of a reasearch project into the atlantic. They might be doing better on the gulf side than they are in the atlantic though....They do get pretty large...Good eats...
I bet the shrimpers would not mind catching them instead of the smaller native shrinps...Maybe they released them....???

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