Cagliari, the lagoon of Santa Gilla devastated by the blue crab: "It destroys the nets and eats the fish, we are desperate"

There are many, and they are big, much more than in previous years. It's the blue crabs, the alien species that is devastating the ecosystem. Even in Cagliari , with the fishermen of the Santa Gilla lagoon brought to their knees by the invasion .

The damage caused by the blue crab , they explain, is enormous: «And double. First of all because they eat fish, sole in primis. And then they destroy the networks, which become unusable.

An almost unstoppable phenomenon: "It doesn't have a predator" , say the fishermen. “Its only predators are us. And we have no funding to buy back the destroyed material.

(Unioneonline)