Coping with crisis: how scientists are making an invasive crab a delicacy

The little green invader gobbling shellfish and destroying habitats in the Gulf of Maine could finally have a predator - humans

In the salt marshes and estuaries of New England, the most dominant and fearsome predator is a voracious invader that grows to just inches and lays waste to everything in its path.

The European green crab first arrived in the new world more than 200 years go, smuggling itself to American shores in the ballast holds of transatlantic ships.