National Invasive Species Awareness Week is Feb. 25-March 3.
According to the National Wildlife Federation, some 42 percent of threatened or endangered species are at risk because of invasives.
GCOOS has datasets that track the movement of two of the Gulf’s most highly invasive species: lionfish and Asian tiger shrimp. Our interactive products include layers and tools for users to customize the maps to see how observations of these two species have increased and spread across the Gulf over recent decades.
The shocking spread of lionfish shows year by year as they progress from southeast Florida up the east coast as well as throughout the Gulf of Mexico from 1985 to today.
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