Bay & Environment: Eat the aliens! - Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs, Maryland, global warming and climate change

I had a feature in today's paper about the most recent invasive species in Maryland: the king crawdaddy....aka the rusty crayfish.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is warning fishermen to stop dumping bait buckets with crayfish into streams, because this spreads the big-clawed mud bug. Biologists worry the rusty crayfish will multiply rapidly, eat native crayfish, gobble up fish eggs, and mow down aquatic vegetation that helps clean streams.

Alert reader Hank Green of Sebastian, Florida, wrote to let me know that some folks in Michigan -- which has also been invaded by king crawdaddy -- figured out a solution to the problem. EAT THE ALIEN INVADERS! Apparently, they're good in jambalaya. "Once people figure out how good they taste then will become extinct in no time," Green wrote.

Here's the article. Thanks, Hank!

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Rona Kobell reports on the Chesapeake Bay, and in her seven years with The Sun, she's visited clam farms in Virginia, a peeler pen on Taylors Island and a small market on Smith Island that serves what many people consider the best crab cake in the world (to judge for yourself, head to the Drum Point Market in Tylerton). Rona enjoys hanging out with her husband and daughter.

Tom Pelton writes about the environment and has been at The Sun for 10 years. He lives in the city with his wife, two daughters, and an exotic ecosystem that involves a cat, hamsters, hermit crabs, cacti, running shoes, drums, guitar, violins, mild cheeses and strong opinions.
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Tim Wheeler writes about growth and base-realignment for The Sun. A reporter and editor here since 1985, the West Virginia native has spent most of his adult life around the bay. He lives in Catonsville, one of Baltimore's older, walkable suburbs.

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