Invasive shrimp found in Twin Ports harbor

Another foreign, aquatic invasive species has been found in the Twin Ports harbor — this time a small invertebrate called the bloody red shrimp.

A single bloody red shrimp was confirmed this week after analysis of water samples taken last July by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The critter, which is native to freshwater lakes and rivers of the Caspian region of eastern Europe, was found in Allouez Bay, not far from the Burlington Northern ore docks.

It's the first time bloody red shrimp — hemimysis anomala — have been found in the Lake Superior ecosystem. They were first found in the Great Lakes in 2006 in Lake Michigan at Muskegon, Mich., and have been expanding there as well as in lakes Erie, Ontario and Huron.=read more