Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Established Record: Atlantic Ocean, Buoy Slough off St. Augustine/FL/Atlantic Ocean (10/17/2007, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2014)

1st Record: St. Augustine/FL/Atlantic Ocean (1988, Wenner and Knott 1992, escaped from culture ponds in South Carolina)

Geographic Extent

1st Record: St. Augustine/FL/Atlantic Ocean (1988, Wenner and Knott 1992, escaped from culture ponds in South Carolina); unspecified location at St. Augustine Inlet/FL/Atlantic Ocean (9/24/2011, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2011, 29.90927, -81.28854); south of New Smyrna Beach/Intra-Coastal Waterway (8/29/2010, USGS Nonindigenous Species Program 2008, 28.9283); across from Veterans Memorial Park, South Palmetto Dr., Daytona Beach/FL/Halifax River,Intracoastal Waterway (7/15/2012, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2012); off Flagler Beach/FL/Atlantic Ocean (10/2013, Fuller et al. 2014, 2 catches of 11 and 18 kg)