Live Canadian lobsters mysteriously turn up in U.K. traps

Every time we cross the ocean, we are taking names, kicking ass, and playing with the local girls.

Reminds me of what happened when the Russians decided to replace their over-hunted beavers, with Canadian ones. What a mistake, the Canadian beavers, being bigger and more aggressive, took over.

http://english.pravda.ru/news/society/s ... 2/25642-0/

Canadian beavers invade Russia
31.01.2002 | Source: Pravda.Ru
Canadian beavers gnawed their way via Finland and Sweden and flooded the remote forests. Now, the Canadian beavers are hurrying to Russia, which makes Russian scientists rather nervous.

The re-settled Canadian beavers started moving from northern European southwards, ousting Russian beavers and posing a big threat to farms and forests. As a Russian scientist said, Russia has become the real battlefield between the Canadian and Russian beavers. For the time being, the Canadians are winning.

The Canadian beavers were brought to Finland and Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s, where there was no population of beavers. Since they did not have any natural enemies in these areas, they quickly extended their living areas. There are currently up to 20 thousand Canadian beavers in the north of Russia, and scientists say that they are going to move further south.

The difference between the Russian and the Canadian beavers is that the latter build huge dams, sometimes several hundreds of meters long, whereas European beavers do not usually spend their time making such things. As a result, the foreign beavers are changing the Russian ecology drastically and unpredictably, becoming the reason for floods on the adjacent territories. Russian scientists fear that the beavers will cause damage to Russian canals and farms, altering the water levels of the rivers. Some of them even steal vegetables from farms. One British newspaper wrote that beavers are “uncivilized animals.”

Translated by Dmitry Sudakov




this article is a hoot.

How about secretly releasing a few mated pairs of raccoons in Russia?

... since we don't have our own nukes, and all.

Screw that! Send them some Ermine. Those little bastards will make Sable look like housecats.

I want to see how Batsy spins this one. Britain invented lobster you know!

Batsy....betcha his first name ends in -vinder.

And local boys

Sounds to me like British fishermen are 'explaining' away what they've .

Our lobsters are immigrating to the UK... WTF!

I dont think any explination justifies any actions

See what happens when the CCG is sleeping lol. The Red Coats come in and snag a few lol.

Any Brit who's plum crazy enough to cross the Atlantic in his fishing boat to grab some lobsters off of one of our banks, should be allowed to keep them, I'd. say

The intriguing part is that the number of lobsters are exploding on our own shore as species like the Atlantic Cod plummet. We are re-engineering the ecology of the Atlantic and those lobster may very well have increased their range to the other side. I can't imaging that they walked across at the deep part but ... who knows? Maybe extreme depth is irrelevant to them.

From the way the article was talking they seemed to be suggesting it was bleeding heart, lobster loving, Euro-PETA types releasing the larger and tastier Canadian lobsters from fish tanks on cruise ships and ocean side restaurants that were causing the potential infestation into Europe.

"Free the Lobsters"?

Oh brother.