🚨 Invasive Alert: Mitten Crabs 🦀⚠️

They may look cute with their furry claws, but these East Asian crabs are invading new waters and harming native ecosystems. If you see one, report it!

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📷 Mark Rowley #DASSH #MarineData #MittenCrab @thembauk.bsky.social

🦀 This #InvasiveSpeciesWeek we're spotlighting the growing threat of Chinese Mitten Crab in our catchments. These invaders damage riverbanks & disrupt ecosystems.
🚫 Report sightings at httpirecord.org.uk/...emember: Check, Clean, Dry!
#MittenCrab #StopTheSpread #NNNSI #INNSWEEK

For some fieldwork now at the #mittencrab retour system to rid upstream areas and #scheldt tributaries of crabs

360k 2.5 tonnes of Chinese #mittencrab mass trapped and crushed in Flanders this year by @vlaamseoverheid wonder if this is money well spent rationale protecting macrofytes

Flanders developed #mailboxtrap for mass-trapping of #mittencrab during spring migration #invasivespecies #UnionList
www.vmm.be/nieuwsbrief/december-201...