Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Port Townsend/WA/Puget Sound (1896, Smith 1896); Nanaimo Lighthouse and vicinity/Vancouver Island/British Columbia (1896, Carl and Giguet 1972, 298 planted)

Geographic Extent

Nanaimo Lighthouse and vicinity, Vancouver Island/British Columbia/Georgia Straits (1896, Carl and Giguet 1972; 298 planted); Vancouver area/British Columbia/Second Narrows, Burrard Inlet (1905, Carl and Giguet 1972, 590 planted); Sechelt Peninsula/British Columbia/Secret Cove (1905, Carl and Giguet 1972, 43 planted); Gambier Island/British Columbia/Long Bay (1905, Carl and Giguet 1972, 43 planted); British Columbia/Snug Cove (1905, Carl and Giguet 1972, 43 planted); Vancouver Island/British Columbia/False Narrows (1905, Carl and Giguet 1972, 135 planted); Vancouver Island/British Columbia/Nanoose Bay (1905, Carl and Giguet 1972, 171 planted); Vancouver Island/British Columbia/Sooke Bay, Strait of Juan da Fuca (1905, Carl and Giguet 1972, 1,900 planted); Lasqueti Island/British Columbia/a lagoon, Georgia Straits (1948, Carl and Giguet 1972, 1606 released, only 3 caught 1949); Prince Rupert/British British Columbia/Chatham Sound (1955, Carl and Giguet 1972, 18 escaped aquaculture enclosure, 3 caught in 1956); Vancouver Island/British Columbia/Fatty Basin (1965-1967, 5000 lobsters introduced, Ghelardi and Shoop 1967, cited by Carlton 1979, larvae seen but no recruitment reported); Port Townsend/WA/Puget Sound (1896, Smith 1896); Vancouver Island/British Columbia/Saanich Inlet (2011, sighting by diver, Klinkenberg 2010); Vancouver/British Columbia/Indian Arm (before 2005, sighting by diver, Klinkenberg 2010); Divers in Puget Sound report several sightings of adult American Lobsters, over the last 10 years, including females with eggs Patrick Lynch, sighting, personal communication, via REEF).