United StatesFlorida—Video—Fisherman Catches Twelve-Inch-Long Giant Tiger Shrimp

On July 9, 2015, a commercial shrimp fisherman caught a twelve-inch-long, giant tiger shrimp (Penaeusmonodon) on the St. Johns River in northeast Florida. It’s no longer unusual for shrimpers to catch tigershrimp, an invasive species from Asia, along the southeast and Gulf coasts of the United States, but one twelveinches long is rarity. The two maps below show the increase in the incidence of tiger shrimp catches in the United States from 2000to 2014: