Sometimes the introduction of a species into a new location is intentional and sometimes it isn’t. The first mention of a strange species on Long Beach Island came in the February 1878 issue of Harper’s Monthly after a Harper’s reporter visited the Island.

“A visitor is sometimes surprised to see foreign brands of olives and canned stuffs on the shelves of the village stores; he learns that they have been secured from a wreck; and the host of one inn at which we spent a night had some excellent…