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Trapping Signal Crayfish
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Rasputin
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No experience of catching them in this country but where I used to pull them from in France it was either you caught a handful like you did or it was rammed almost no middle ground. Not sure if ours would be the same but if you’re just pulling a handful at a time might be worth trying different spots.
Fish flavoured carp boilies worked a treat and are hard enough for a long soak.
Fish flavoured carp boilies worked a treat and are hard enough for a long soak.
Cheers yeah I'm looking at other parts of the river as well to try
Hmmm. I wonder if there's any in my stream?
TringSaint
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Not wanting to suggest that anyone breaks the law here, but who would ever know????
So long as you take them home, purge them and attack with some chilli butter, what’s the issue??
After all, what the eye doesn’t see, the brain doesn’t care about!!
So long as you take them home, purge them and attack with some chilli butter, what’s the issue??
After all, what the eye doesn’t see, the brain doesn’t care about!!
Just like April fallow does.
TringSaint
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I know what you mean and it is tempting, the chances of getting caught are so low but could still happen so I don't take any chances
Cooked and resting in the fridge to be vac packed tomorrow until I have enough for a meal, smells delightful
TringSaint
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Given how vastly underfunded natural England and the EA are, they only go for big fish.
I have a chap next to me who runs a ‘waste management site’ under EA exemptions but he continually breaches the terms. But you try getting the EA to act! Like getting blood from a stone!
On this basis I would take home, purge and devour and plead innocence / ignorance if caught. Not in public interest to prosecute!!
Morkai
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Classic Old Bay
I'm not sure to be honest, I'd imagine register a food business for shellfish and have appropriate storage/transport to prevent any getting free, I also think there is a minimum size limit to sell them
What type of watercourse do they prefer?
The signal crayfish distribution map shows a red spot right over my farm, but the scale is so small that the same red spot also covers most of the rest of the district.
My stream is small and stony, with a few muddy and boggy patches, and primarily runs through dense woodland.
countrryboy
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On that other thread ur on ur high horse about green issues etc, and that's ur right if u believe that.
But telling someone to transport live signal crays about when u don't know how far he's travelling g or travelling to an area with none.
Is grossly irresponsible, the damage they can cause to river catchments and are almost impossible to eradicate from the river system once there.
They can also survive and travel quite long distances over ground if they escaped or u crashed the car
Ur all about saving the planet with grand gestures but then coming out with stuff like that, just hypocrisy.
Something u can very easily do to protect ur local environment and u don't want to do it.
Fair play to u t.eddie for doing it the right way.
Cheers yeah I think as long as they are on damp ground they can travel quite far so I'm not taking the risk
countrryboy
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I mind they put windmills up behind my house, big forested site to be felled which straddled 2 catchments, 1 with signal crays 1 without.
The fishery lad was all over the windfarm eco/envor team ( and this was decades ago before they had big environment teams on windmills sifes) making sure was no racks/brash mates, extraction routes crossing from 1 catchment to the other incase they wandered up it and into the next catchment..
And same again when they drained/ ground prepped it, no machines to cross without being washed off
As far as I know still signal cray fish free on ymthe rivers here.
As anaside that river did try to having an eradication policy on the crays but they think it made it worse.
They set traps but reckoned the females could get out, so we're getting in eating the larger males then escaping. So they were then breeding better.
U also have the added problem of folk going the step further after travelling to catch them and taking them home.
Wouldn't it be handy if they were just In our pond/local river and let some go.
Which is how they have spread so widely
The fishery lad was all over the windfarm eco/envor team ( and this was decades ago before they had big environment teams on windmills sifes) making sure was no racks/brash mates, extraction routes crossing from 1 catchment to the other incase they wandered up it and into the next catchment..
And same again when they drained/ ground prepped it, no machines to cross without being washed off
As far as I know still signal cray fish free on ymthe rivers here.
As anaside that river did try to having an eradication policy on the crays but they think it made it worse.
They set traps but reckoned the females could get out, so we're getting in eating the larger males then escaping. So they were then breeding better.
U also have the added problem of folk going the step further after travelling to catch them and taking them home.
Wouldn't it be handy if they were just In our pond/local river and let some go.
Which is how they have spread so widely
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