A shrimp that can grow to a foot in length and a pound in weight hardly deserves the name, but the main problem with the tiger shrimp isn't that it's an oxymoron. It's that the species poses a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- With the inshore white shrimp season getting close, biologists are asking shrimpers to keep an eye out for Asian tiger prawns and to send photos of any they catch. The ...

As summer approaches, fear and intrigue is building in south Louisiana over the latest menace prowling the waters of the Gulf of Mexico: the tiger shrimp. Last year, mainly in the summer and fall ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part package on tiger shrimp. See Monday's or go to staugustine.com for the second part on the re-emergence of the wild tiger shrimp in St. Augustine.

A truly jumbo shrimp is causing big worries about the future of the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem. The Asian tiger prawn, a foot-long crustacean with a voracious appetite and a proclivity for disease ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native ...

NEW ORLEANS — A big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native species ...