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Asian giant shrimp invaded U.S. waters, spawning more than 500,000 at a time, local experts: all blame Chinese

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In the summer, the night market business in various places immediately became hot, and the things bought in the night market in different places were very different, but there was definitely one thing that was definitely common everywhere, that is, the stalls selling spicy crayfish, what could be happier than drinking and eating crayfish with friends in the summer? If you have to say that the estimated is that crayfish are too expensive, a pound has to be dozens of processed more expensive, food stalls on the seat for a while hundreds of pieces are gone, in fact, not only crayfish in the country only a shrimp stained things are basically expensive, cheap is also the average person may not dare to eat, and just when Chinese headache shrimp is too little not enough to eat, the United States on the other side of the ocean is worried about too much shrimp, what is going on?

Asian giant shrimp invaded U.S. waters, spawning more than 500,000 at a time, local experts: all blame Chinese

This kind of shrimp flooded in the United States is called black tiger shrimp, also known as monodon shrimp because of the black ring pattern similar to tigers on the body and named, originating from Asian lard distributed in the vast area of southern Japan to Southeast Asia, the south of the continent, especially Fujian and Guangdong are more common, because of the strong reproductive ability, large body size and delicious meat, so it is widely praised in Asian countries, especially during the holidays is simply in short supply, so many countries in Asia have artificial breeding, because of the high economic value at the end of the last century was brought into the United States, the result was an accident.

Asian giant shrimp invaded U.S. waters, spawning more than 500,000 at a time, local experts: all blame Chinese

As we all know, it is impossible to avoid the situation of individual escape, and the escaped black tiger shrimp is quickly flooded here due to the lack of natural enemies in the United States, black tiger shrimp can flood mainly rely on two points, one is to be able to give birth, more than 500,000 eggs at a time, this group of eggs even if only one thousandth hatch and grow to adulthood is also a terrible animal number, the second is not picky eaters, this shrimp meat vegetarian does not avoid eating everything, plus not a small size, soon forced the fish and shrimp in the United States to a corner.

In addition to the wild scourge of wild animals, but also destroy the forest, juvenile black tiger shrimp especially like to inhabit the roots of mangroves, which has caused serious damage to it makes mangroves in the United States plummet, and even a large number of black tiger shrimp appear in the farmland to destroy crops, because of the lack of natural enemies and abundant food, this group of black tiger shrimp continues to grow, has far exceeded the relatives in Asia, the largest body size of more than 30 cm waist is thicker than human arms.

Asian giant shrimp invaded U.S. waters, spawning more than 500,000 at a time, local experts: all blame Chinese

Seeing this, someone asked, since this thing is used to eat in Asia, why don't Americans eat it directly? The reason is still the sins of the Americans themselves, the rivers and lakes in the United States have long been very polluted in the industrial tide a hundred years ago, the fish and shrimp in the fresh water are all heavy metals exceeding the standard, resulting in almost no one in the United States to eat river fresh, in the United States flooded with carp and some shellfish The reason is also this, when the black tiger shrimp was introduced, each person brought back a few secretly raised, ready to sell to local Asians, and stabbed a big cudge.

Asian giant shrimp invaded U.S. waters, spawning more than 500,000 at a time, local experts: all blame Chinese

It is said that it was an Asian who introduced black tiger shrimp to the United States at that time, and it is not clear which country it was, but some so-called experts in the United States determined that it was Chinese done, on the grounds that Asian-Chinese accounted for the majority, and Chinese liked to eat strange things, and some people even asked that the Chinese in the United States compensate for the losses caused by black tiger shrimp, I don't know what do you think about this?

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