“We are helplessly witnessing a cataclysm, damage to the ecosystem and the fishing economy of incalculable proportions”. Not later than a week ago, the alarm was sounded by the vice president of Fedagripesca Toscana, Andrea Bartoli, worried by the discovery in the Orbetello lagoon of quintals and quintals of blue crabs responsible for an authentic massacre of sea bream, mussels and clams. An alien species which has invaded the northern Adriatic coasts and which also represents a serious threat to the Tuscan coasts, as already feared by industry experts and confirmed by the latest sightings. In fact, the last report received by two provincial police officers who, on duty for a patrol in the municipality of Rosignano Marittimo, noticed some specimens of blue crab in a reclamation channel near the beaches dates from last Monday, July 31st. Vada whites.
Orbetello, invasion of blue crabs: massacre of sea bream in the lagoon, the coasts at risk. Fedagripesca: “Environmental and economic cataclysm” | VIDEO
“The crustacean, called blue king crab or blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) is native to the Atlantic coasts of the American continent, but in recent years it has spread to the European continent, also reaching Italy and Tuscany – explain the Province -. animal feeds mostly on gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans, but also on small fish, worms, jellyfish and algae and their extremely rapid proliferation, particularly in the Orbetello lagoon area, is causing widespread concern for damage to farms fish and biodiversity”. A “dramatic” situation from Orbetello to Marina di Pisa, as Arpat recognizes, for which Fedagripesca has always asked the government to order “a state of emergency”.
