Chinese netizens voluntarily eat less invasive crabs to save the US ecosystem

Recently, Internet users in an extremely populous country are eager to help the US fight the Chinese corn crisis by . eating them as much as possible.

Chinese copper crab or Chinese crab, Eriocheir sinensis (Eriocheir sinensis) is a copper crab crab, native to Fujian, China. They were introduced to Europe and North America and were considered dangerous invasive species.

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Chinese copper crabs or Chinese crabs, Crabs.

Chinese crabs are large in size, quite strange in shape, blue or red, the shells are usually grayish green, the bigger the two are faster and faster. Looking at it is quite similar to Vietnamese copper crab but the behavior is completely different: Crabs live in caves, holes in fields, canals. Meanwhile, Chinese crabs do not live in caves but crawl around where they live.

The offer came after the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) issued a statement about the discovery of Chinese crabs appearing on the US coast. Basically, because of the invasive behavior of Chinese crabs, it causes serious damage to the local environment.

In the past few years, Chinese crabs appear in large numbers in the vicinity of the sea such as California, Hudson River and Chesapeake Bay. Since 2014, there has been no official report on the arrival of Chinese crabs. Officials at SERC fear Chinese crabs will thrive this summer.

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Chinese netizens are volunteering through the US to eat copper crabs.

There is even a hotline to report on the arrival of Chinese crabs.

Although Chinese crab is a specialty in a billion-dollar nation, it is classified as one of the 100 most terrifying invasive creatures on the planet and annoying everywhere, not to mention the risk of blocking the water system, Harmful to fish and increased erosion in rivers.

To increase people's ability to win in this battle, Chinese netizens are volunteering through the United States to eat copper crabs. Many tourists said, "The United States should consider adding a crab-eating visa to Chinese people."