A shrimp that can grow to a foot in length and a pound in weight hardly deserves the name, but the main problem with the tiger shrimp isn't that it's an oxymoron. It's that the species poses a ...

Tiger shrimp can produce about 1.5 million eggs versus the about 500,000 more typical of their Gulf shrimp cousins. Kim Chauvin, a Terrebonne Parish shrimp processor and dock owner, ...

New Orleans-- A big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native species ...

BROWNSVILLE — When the shrimp boat Captain Wallace pulled into port last week, it carried something sinister in its catch: a nearly 11-inch black tiger shrimp. Characterized by their super size ...

Do not be alarmed, but the cannibal shrimp invasion has begun. The influx of the jumbo-sized shrimp (which look more like a small lobster than the little pink crustaceans you see at the grocery ...

A tiger prawn is displayed by shrimp trawler Capt. Tony Perez. The foot-long female was caught about 60 miles south of the Louisiana coast near Morgan City in October.

Tiger shrimp were first reported in the wild in South Carolina in 1988 following an accidental release of approximately 2,000 animals from an aquaculture facility in Bluffton, SC. Later that year, ...