Invasive Species Corporation is working on a solution with microorganisms for control of burrowing shrimp. Biological products for pest management, such as microbials, have several decades long successful history of use, such as the use of Bacillus thuringiensis for pest caterpillar control in forestry and agriculture and for mosquito control in water.

With the shrimp moving into lucrative oyster tideflats along the west coast of the US, they make the sand and mud soft and unstable. As a result, oysters and other shellfish can sink beneath the silty surface and suffocate.