Reproductive biology of an invasive population of European green crab, Carcinus maenas, in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland

Kiley Best,Cynthia Mckenzie,Cyr Couturier

doi:10.3391/mbi.2017.8.2.12

Abstract

Reproductive biology of an invasive population of European green crab, Carcinus maenas, in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland

Highlights

The National Conference on Marine Bioinvasions held on January 24–27, 1999 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, was the first of what we refer to today as the International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions (ICMB)
Discussions and planning for an ICMB-I had begun in the summer and fall of 1997, and a steering committee was formed in February 1998
ICMB grew in participant numbers but, most importantly, it grew in the diversity of supporting and participating countries, institutions and topics at the forefront of ecological research, education, management and policies tackling marine bioinvasions

Summary

Introduction

The ecological and economic impacts of the zebra mussels (followed by quagga mussels, Dreissena bugensis Andrusov, 1897) invasions had fuelled general public and political awareness in the U.S and Canada on aquatic non-indigenous species, leading to funding for research and management. At the time ICMB-I was convened, the field of marine bioinvasions had grown from a handful of experts just two decades earlier, to over 200 international and national researchers, managers, and others sharing insights on a recognised and growing worldwide issue (Pederson 1999). The work presented at ICMB-I fell under the three main topics: patterns of invasions, ecological and evolutionary consequences, and ballast water management.

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