Hi guys,
 
Okay, okay, I'm going to be the optimistic fly-in-the-ointment again.
I've heard the stories of salted beaches also, and where there is money
to be made I would not be surprised at all with that, but (Yep,
but.)there is still maritime traffic that plies the oceans and seas and
travels through the Panama canal and other various connecting waterways
and they have had an effect on the distribution of critters.
Sometimes the larval stages of the beasties can be carried around in
balast and clinging to the bottoms of some of those rust-buckets out
there.  And it's not only the marauding predators like zebra mussel that
find their way to where they really don't belong.
Now, Charlie, is that imaginative enough?
 
Patti in New Mexico
 
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