Status of Aquatic Invasive Species in Tampa Bay and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico

Crustaceans

sCrabs (for commercial fishery)

sShrimps – escaped aquaculture

sBarnacles (?) - ship fouling

sIsopods (?) - ship fouling as long as one hundred years ago sCopepods – (Centropages typicus) ballast water (Carlton and Geller, 1993)


	One crab was introduced for a commercial fishery, but it did work. Another, the saber crab, has been found in tributaries of Tampa Bay. A few species of barnacles and isopods are nonindigenous and occurred as long as 100 years ago. Did they impact any native species? We don’t know.