The Galician Mussel Producers Organization (Opmega) warns of a massive plague of the swimming crab that directly attacks cultivation ropes and compromises the sector's future campaigns.

Vilagarcía de Arousa, Galician culture raft operators are enduring difficult seasons marked by prolonged red tides, extreme weather events, and historic production lows. However, this summer has brought an unprecedented threat for which the sector has no memory: a massive and unprecedented proliferation of the patuxo (also known popularly in Galicia as patexo or pateiro). This small swimming crab (Polybius henslowii<...  (More Info)