Freshwater Crays are on in Vic.

[John Gryphon]

 

[dartmoordog]

We have these bas**d things, the video says it all, but during my career we disposed of dustbins full of the bloody things. They are delicious apparently, but my dislike of them seeing the damage they do, and have done, I cannot bring myself to consume them. We don’t have them where I reside, the water is to acidic, but in softer water areas, they are an absolute plague. A bit like your problem with Carp in the Murray River.

 

[starr shot]

Went and visited a lake the step son was fishing and apparently due to cray fish invasion he had to use braided line and plastic bait.

 

[John Gryphon]

Went and visited a lake the step son was fishing and apparently due to cray fish invasion he had to use braided line and plastic bait.

These crays can get up to 2kg`s,totally different to the rest except the Giant Tassy Cray.

 

[Flash G 74]

Hello, They have devastated the Thames but try and get a permit is nigh on impossible

 

[dartmoordog]

Hello, They have devastated the Thames but try and get a permit is nigh on impossible

I feel your pain, it must be so frustrating! They should be encouraging people to take and eat unlimited numbers, it’s not difficult to differentiate between them and our native Cray, not that you’re likely to find many of them. Although I do appreciate that the need for a permit is necessary, and that traps need to have specific dimensions and Otter guards etc, so it worth bearing that in mind. So perhaps not as easy as we think.

 

[Flash G 74]

I feel your pain, it must be so frustrating! They should be encouraging people to take and eat unlimited numbers, it’s not difficult to differentiate between them and our native Cray, not that you’re likely to find many of them. Although I do appreciate that the need for a permit is necessary, and that traps need to have specific dimensions and Otter guards etc, so it worth bearing that in mind. So perhaps not as easy as we think.

Hello, I cannot think of any where in the Thames with native Crays unless in the very upper reaches, Saying that the original head is miles from the start of river now, There must be millions of reds in the Thames

 

[starr shot]

These crays can get up to 2kg`s,totally different to the rest except the Giant Tassy Cray.

Christ you only need one for a meal then

 

[John Gryphon]

Christ you only need one for a meal then

theres a bit of shell in that mix so make it a couple.

 

[Mountain Bug]

they are an absolute plague. A bit like your problem with Carp in the Murray River.

Sounds like the makings of a burgeoning industry. They are delicious. Down south in the States we often use them as a second crop once a rice field is harvested. They flood the field again just to raise and harvest crayfish.


Scott

 

[NoIDeer]

The signals taste of mud if they come out of a muddy pond. I guess the government don't want people introducing them to clean running streams to flush the mud out, they are very good at escaping.