The words “bloody red shrimp” don’t exactly sound pleasant at the best of times, but the species’ name has become even more sinister to biologists’ ears since one of the shrimp was found in Lake Superior.
A single bloody red shrimp was found on the American side of the lake, near Duluth, Minnesota, in July, and was identified a few months later. The species originated from the Caspian Sea in Europe, and has since been found in every great lake except Lake Superior — until now.
“How it got here? We’re not really sure,” Doug Jensen, an invasive species specialist at the University of Minnesota’s Sea Grant Program, told the CBC. Read more.
