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| The History and Effects of Exotic Species in San Francisco Bay |
| San Francisco Bay Project, Water Resources Division |
| J. Thompson, F. Parchaso, A. Alpine, J. Cloern, B. Cole, O. Mace, J. Edmunds, J. Baylosis, S. Luoma, F. Nichols |
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| What are the exotic species doing now? |
| The Chinese Mitten Crab may have been illegally introduced in 1992-94 as a food resource. It burrows into and weakens dikes and levees. It is also a host to the oriental lung fluke, a human parasite.
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U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
