Science on Tap: A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad invader of North Pacific estuaries...and what we can or can’t do about it.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 5:30am to 7am
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2320 SE Marine Science Dr. Newport, OR 97365
Speaker: John Chapman, Courtesy Professor of Fisheries, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University
Topic: A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad invader of North Pacific estuaries...and what wecan or can’t do about it.
Populations of the native blue mud shrimp Upogebia pugettensis have dramatically declined or collapsed to effective or actual extinction in all estuaries between southern British Columbia and Morro Bay, California due to a blood sucking Asian parasite, Orthione griffenis. Our detection methods seem to fail. Responses to this invasion include a search for refuge U. pugettensis populations and efforts to discover how this new invader finds and destroys its new host.
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