Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Boothbay Harbor/ME/Boothbay Harbor (1949, settlement seen, Loosanoff 1955; Loosanoff 1963; Welch 1966)

Geographic Extent

Sambro/Nova Scotia (Atlantic Ocean) (1996, Vercaemer et al. 2003); Albert/New Brunswick/Lockhart Lake, Bay of Fundy (1996, Vercaemer et al. 2003; Bataller et al. 2006); Franklin/ME/Frenchman Bay (1949, Welch 1966, heavy mortality, none found after 1953); Boothbay Harbor/ME/Boothbay Harbor (1949, settlement seen, Loosanoff 1955; Loosanoff 1963; Welch 1966); ME/Damariscotta River (1962, Barber and Davis 1994); Merepont/ME/Casco Bay (1961, Welch 1966); Harpswell/ME/Basin Cove, Casco Bay (1949, Welch 1966, settlement seen); Baileys Island/ME/Casco Bay (1961, Welch 1966, settlement seen); ME/Brigham's Cove, Casco Bay (1961, Welch 1966, settlement seen); Small Point/ME/Casco Bay (1955, Welch 1966, settlement seen); Harpswell Neck-Hermit Island/ME/Casco Bay (1984, Heinig and Tarbox 1985, spotty populations found, sufficent to support modest fisheries); Wells Harbor Marina/ME/ Wells Harbor (2013, Wells et al. 2014); NH-ME/Great Bay ('established in the estuary', Harris and Dijkstra 2007); University of New Hampshire Costa Laboratoyr, Newcastle/NH/Creat Bay (2013, Wells et al. 2014); Isles of Shoals/NH/Gosport Harbor (Harris and Dijkstra 2007); Rye/NH/Rye Harbor, Gulf of Maine (2003, MIT Sea Grant 2007); Cape Ann Marina, Gloucester/MA/Massachusetts Bay (2000, MIT Sea Grant 2007); Hawthorne Cove Marina, Salem/MA/Salem Harbor (Massachusetts Bay) (2000, MIT Sea Grant 2007); Rowes Wharf, Boston/MA/Boston Harbor (2013, Wells et al. 2014); Boston Harbor Islands/MA/Boston Harbor (Bell et al. 2005)

(Bataller,-E [Author,-Reprint-Author]; Burke,-K [Author]; Ouellette,-M [Author]; Maillet,-M-J [Author] Evaluation of spawning period and spat collection of the northernmost population of European oysters (Ostrea edulis L.) on the Canadian Atlantic coast. Canadian-Technical-Report-of-Fisheries-and-Aquatic-Sciences. 2006; 2630: 1-21,22-26,VI)