Invasive species are still rare in the Arctic — but that could soon change
Environmental and economic changes could make it easier for non-native plants and animals to gain a foothold in the North.
January 18, 2018
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The best-known instance of invasive species in the Arctic is perhaps the red king crab: In the 1960s, the Soviet Union, seeking to increase the “productivity” of the Barents Sea, began a program of releasing the species, a native of the Pacific Ocean, into the waters off the Kola Peninsula.
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