{"id":26106,"date":"2026-04-28T15:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/?p=26106"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:49:28","slug":"blue-crab-the-invasion-ravaging-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/crabe-bleu-linvasion-qui-ravage-la-mediterranee\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue crab: the invasion ravaging the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"26106\" class=\"elementor elementor-26106\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56765dc2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"56765dc2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7991114f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7991114f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df506a4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"df506a4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc915fb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dc915fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IRD le Mag\u2019 - The American blue crab is invading the Mediterranean, threatening fishermen and ecosystems. This disaster is forcing us to reinvent coastal management.<\/strong><\/h4><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00abGood tasting swimmer\u00bb: that's what Callinectes sapidus means in Latin. Behind this appealing name, however, lies an invasive species that is causing an ecological and economic disaster affecting the entire Mediterranean region. Guillaume Marchessaux, an IRD research fellow in population biology and ecology at the MIO, explains how this crustacean from America has managed to undermine an entire ecosystem.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p><h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemag.ird.fr\/fr\/crabe-bleu-linvasion-qui-ravage-la-mediterranee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the article<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5f397b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a5f397b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-096d565 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"096d565\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandeau-test-3-1536x576.png\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536 wp-image-26107\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandeau-test-3-1536x576.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandeau-test-3-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandeau-test-3-1024x384.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandeau-test-3-768x288.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandeau-test-3-18x7.png 18w, https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandeau-test-3-1320x495.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bandeau-test-3.png 1908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8c9e77 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f8c9e77\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c1f372 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5c1f372\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo credit: \u00a9 IRD - Guillaume Marchessaux<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRD le Mag&#8217; &#8211; Le crabe bleu am\u00e9ricain envahit la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e, mena\u00e7ant p\u00eacheurs et \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes. Une catastrophe qui force \u00e0 r\u00e9inventer la gestion du littoral.\u00a0\u00ab Bon nageur savoureux \u00bb : [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":26107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mediation-scientifique","category-a-la-une","category-actualites"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26106"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26117,"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26106\/revisions\/26117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}