Invasive Species Ride Tsunami Debris To US Shore

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 11, 2012 @04:12AM from the are-going-my-way? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When a floating dock the size of a boxcar washed up on a sandy beach in Oregon, beachcombers got excited because it was the largest piece of debris from last year's tsunami in Japan to show up on the West Coast. But scientists worried it represented a whole new way for invasive species of seaweed, crabs and other marine organisms to break the earth's natural barriers and further muck up the West Coast's marine environments. And more invasive species could be hitching rides on tsunami debris expected to arrive in the weeks and months to come."

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Re:More sushi! by cayenne8 · 2012-06-11 04:56 · Score: 4, Informative

Best way to resolve invasive species problems... first find a way to serve them up!
Agreed!!
Please ship some samples down here to the New Orleans area, we can find a way to cook anything....and make it taste good!!

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