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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2015
- Around 40 per cent of the remaining native white-clawed crayfish population in England could be wiped out in a year after experts confirmed a deadly plague has been found in one of their strongest surviving populations.
You called the wrong people... you call American Southerners, particularly the Cajuns. They'll show you how to clear that problem right up!
Man get a few of us Americans in there that love crawfish and we’ll have that problem under control in about a family weekend bbq
Eat them, yummy!
Walter Shumate.......I’m going to a Crawfish Boil TOMORROW.
@@TaylorSmith-bl1gh Oh yeah!!
@@michaelbeaulieu2475 As Hank Willliams sang "Jambalaya, a-crawfish pie and-a file gumbo" - later covered by the Carpenters.
I'm moving back to England and starting a crawfish export business. The Royal Crawfish Company. I'll make a bloody fortune.
That is seriously a great idea!
Except most of the streams are no doubt on private property .
0011clem raptor - a small royalty might work
Do it.
@Tony Gonzalez That sounds positively decent.. Crayfish Mexican food... that's a first for me..Freshwater Crayfish in Australia cost a fortune and hard to find. To kill them we don't boil them. We split them (while alive) down the middle with a large knife and then BBQ them after painting them with garlic butter and chive sauce
I can solve your problem with a single item.
Zatarain's crab boil.
Great discussion, guys.
Now ur talking
Hell yeah, a lot of smaller brands have been popping up in Louisiana as well. The powder is great, but throw in some of the liquid stuff in there as well, whew, that's good eating yeah.
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ace videos always uses that
Doesn’t sound like a problem, sounds like dinner
They hot it made and don't know it.
@@anthonydesroches8897 We'd much rather have our native fish...
Ryan Bratley of course you would, but the only economic way to remove them is to eat them out of existence.
Someone needs open a lil crawfish diner there.
The problem, after eat the crawfish, they in love with it, and have to import for more.
if it's edible and it's free the solution is quite simple.
thats what we do in the USA
Crayfish etoffee, Cajun style!
pretty Damn good if boiled up right. my uncle Durwood in Louisiana is a Cajun master.
Michael Byrnes I agree, I live in the UK and I would love to help stop them and get a tasty meal out of it.
There are lots of homeless shelters and people are increasingly relying on food banks. It would be great to kill two birds with one stone.
I bought a crayfish trap a while back but I couldn't work out if I was allowed to use it so it has been gathering dust in the garage. someone told me that I would need training and a lisence but I couldn't work out how to get them at the time as there wasn't much information and what I could find was often different from one site to the next. I don't want to cause more harm to the environment by doing something without the proper know how and I don't want to break the law by setting a trap somewhere that I am not meant to.
It is entirely possible that better information is now available, I will have to have another look.
If it was clear where to find all of the relevant information then I am sure allot more people would be trapping them to eat. it would be great if the environment agency could work with local groups to target these tasty invaders.
From what I know about fish, there must be something that eats them too ? Is there not something that can eat them like Zanders or Pikes.
Release some of their natural predators... Cajuns and Vietnamese people.
Lol
I am Vietnamese and I am not offended
And blacks!! Hello!! Dont b hating cause crayfizh aren't racist, they like to be eaten by all who find them tasty😉
Asu loe
LMAO
Not a problem that cant be solved with boiling water; salt pepper and butter!
Don't forget garlic.
Couldn't put it better me sen
we gonna need some lemon, onion, and a little Toneys also.
garlic but someone said it
Real talk..
leave them alone! my little brother was lost in the woods when he was a child and was taken in by a crayfish family that raised him until he was 22.
Lol
Funny stuff there!
Mike J, you're a nut!! Lmmfao, thank you!!
Did he claw his way back to society ! Did did he eventually come out of his shell !
At least he came out his shell
Y’all need a couple of Cajuns from south Louisiana to show you what to do with these things.
You need a permit to trap an invasive species?
guy c that’s insane! We have invasive species here such as feral hogs. A real problem. You do need a hunting license which is about 40 dollars but if you have landowner permission you can harvest them until you are sick of them. They actually shoot them from helicopters here. They visit my property in the winter and we trap and harvest all we care to eat. As a landowner I don’t even need to buy the hunting license. Just shoot the silly things.
We also have the Nutria rat. Big ugly thing but actually fairly good to eat. Sounds bad but I actually prefer it over chicken. Some folks call it a Coypu. About 8 kilos we harvested them for fur and dog food when I was younger.
guy c we fed a lot of feral pigs to the dogs. A lot of people shoot them, especially the big males, and leave them in the field. They are a real danger and do millions of dollars in damage. We eat crawfish by the tons here. They are farmed intensively here. Different species but still delicious. Nearly every weekend in the spring we have a crawfish boil at a friends house and eat. It’s a pretty small party that only boils 100 pounds of them. It’s a little harder to get people to eat the Nutria but fairly locally there is a festival that specializes in serving it. Good luck with changing government policy!
Why do that when you can just whine and spend tax payers money on gay outfits for your documentary.
Holy crap! You have a gold mine there of crayfish!!! Get the water boiling!! Whoooooooweeeeee.
68air
Yep. They’re eaten in Sweden, Spain and elsewhere.
I once had a bad batch but still ate them and paid for it with explosive diarrhea and nausea.
knuckle sammich probably got frozen crawfish :/ sorry m8
@@knucklesammich6313 - so you had room for more. Whats the issue??
Open a few stands along the river and call them "Boiled Infested Crayfish". You soon will be bigger than Bill Gates.
The rise of anti-crayfishism in the UK is alarming.
really Zaki, is that a word...it could be a good word, but is it a word
@@stevekilpatrick7105 I don't know. But the way they throwing around anti-semitism these days, exclusively to attack human rights defenders, the way they're using liberal to define neoliberals, the way they're using "left" to define centrists, it's lookin like a lot of words gonna loose all meaning.
@@unhappyallthetime8445 Are you implying that the anti-Corbynist wing of the Parliamentary Labour Party are "of the left", or are you one of those "freedom" lovers who think that Obamacare was a communist plot to steal a slice of your Mom's apple pie?
@@john-hl5tq yes Obama would steal your mamas pie while complaining his steak is overcooked. You aint in the same club with Obama
@@zakichoudhary507 no left are lunatic socialist sjw woke dick heads.
A good meal once a week for the British army should trim these down to manageable numbers
Doubt it the Britts can hold their own. Glad to have them as allies!
if only Brits had any taste buds they would boil these guys up in a nice mudbug cook out like we do down here in Texas
+cameron sheehan
We definitely need to encourage more brits to eat these buggers
+33Crazydude they are amazing and you can have a wonderful party with beer and I giant 75 lb boil. Me and by buddy can put away 10 pounds our selves
+cameron sheehan see you people in Texas know whats good and know what your doing hahah use British just don't understand the fun and taste `of doing it ahahah
+Declan Morland sorry about the horrible grammar I was half asleep at 3am typing that lol. Àlot of people don't like them because they say it's to much work for so little meat. The best part is getting down and dirty and diving right in. We are about to have another boil next weekend. From april-june we live off these guys here in the south.
+Declan Morland don't get me wrong my family lives in Manchester city and Liverpool so I know you guys have good cuisine but it can be bland sometimes because you guys just started the whole big culinary for taste in the last 20 years or so.
simple solution.....eat them
True enough. It seems the best way to wipe out a species is to make it legal to hunt/catch them. And I have to ask, how the hell did these things "escape" the project?
That makes too much sense only americans would do that.
mattatuckmanful americans - being sensible
choose one.
+Rodger Balcer you should read up on that lol
A problem? You guys head over to Cajun country in Louisiana and they'll
show you how to throw a crawfish boil. You're sitting on a golden egg.
Three words
Zatarans Crawfish Boil.
Problem solved.
Laisier Bon Temps Roule!
Boil em up and eat em!!! Mud bugs!!!! Louisiana we love em!!!
Let the good times roll
You should be a professional problem solver.
Ooooo weeee! Gonna be a good eatin guaraunteee!
Yaaay yuh
Once u have a nation wide competition 6for the best dishes/receipe with this crayfish, there wont be enough of this crustackm
beautifuldurian pm
I'm with you , make a local competition and see who can get the most of them before there breeding season and during . Idk that guys crayfish trap seemed pretty low maintenance to me , make a festival out of it , come on now be british or whatnot make crayfish finger food for tea time . All the cool kids are doing it :p !
I thought the same before i red yor comment. OR, $10 (euro or whatever) bounty on each one. Immediately it'll be an endangered species. They'll import them from the U.S. for 10 a piece.
Will Holly 10 dollars for a cray? Pfffffft. Catch several pounds of em, boil, crush, cream. Got yerself a tasty spread for bread and sushi and other amazing things.
Drastic measures? A boiling pot, water and seasoning are hard to locate? If so I’d say the situation is very critical.
Seasoning is quite the drastic measure for the British.
@Shade Crenshaw they are not bugs, I say most people do eat seafood.
There are not many for get rid of them by eating them.
@T OB you guys like eating fish finger pies and sea snails, who are you to talk about gentlemen?
@T OB Is the Black Pudding served before or after the biscuits ?
Just catch the dam critters, and invite the whole block for a crayfish boil.
If you want help, you need people that are from Louisiana. As we say back home, "that's good eating".
I love eating crayfish I'm from Louisiana
In Russia we cook them and eat them with beer. Its very delicious!! Try it!!
No Wodka?
"In Soviet Russia, Crayfish eat YOU!"
@@msstcoastie yeah stay away from Chernobyl there a meter long 😉😉
*Mirelurk intensifies*
VinTurboDiesel you Russians have the right idea!
Here in Texas sometimes when our pond dries due to drought it will stay dry for years and it is HOT and you'd think nothing would be able to survive those hellish conditions but you'd be wrong, if you start digging you'll find them and they'll be fat and happy as if nothing bad is happening. They are the perfect plague.
A plague that tastes good!
Well we don't have a shortage of the fucking things, free trade deal where you have the pests back? Lol
They can ship them to me for my crayfish aquarium
They grow it off season with cranberries in the south east it’s work perfect with the berries and they only flood the berries before harvest and that when the crawfish come out of the dry ground in tunnels. Strange but ithere a tube about it.
Send 10 to 12 minutes of boiling water down the river, followed by some melted butter
Tomatoes and chillies......
0:08 looks like there used to be a thick forest there, cut down for ship building to try to build an empire. Now it looks desolate. Should have kept the forest.
Yes exactly. They cut down all the forests, killed all the predators who would eat these crayfish, and now the fishermen are whining about having no fish because of the crayfish that THEY introduced. Brits have absolutely zero common sense or respect for the land.
@@KFrost-fx7dt They tried to conquer the world, an "empire" of blood, fuq em
Export them in Southern US states
Eat them they're good .bait a trap with Chicken flavor cat food come back in a couple hours , you'll have a full trap .
We eat them in the mid west as well.
Imported direct from The good ole USA it's the same ones just 5 generations later
lol its somehow US's fault they were accidentally introduced? but good luck getting millions of people for months to pick out crayfish to help their ecosystem because they can do the damage but people aren't good at taking blame let alone helping at all. just like how your dumb comment doesn't help anyone
No different than the Asian carp Asians said eat them we said hell no . I say can them carp up sell it as Midwestern mountain Tuna- Hell do that with the crayfish you aren't going to eradicate them so Can them sell them make money off them .
A little Old Bay seasonings and some hot sauce you got a meal
Don't forget lemons, oranges, potatoes, corn, shrimp and sausage.
@@sirwilliam51 onion to
I wish there was a market for wild caught signal crayfish in the UK. I’ve never eaten crayfish before but I have had lobster, and I think crayfish tastes similar to lobster.
The natural predator of the Cray is ......the human boy.
Sadly they are watching poxy computer games.
I'm 42 and way back in my day we caught a many of them.
What a fine username!
Exactly. Spent many a summer day catching them with friends, great memories.
Me and my brothers spent countless hours chasing mud bugs in the creeks around our place. And we couldn't wait for the crawfish boils our family had. Family, music and food. Good times.
Seen them to Louisiana and Texas we love them here, we can't get enough of this.
Introduced to England because the native species was being decimated by a crawfish plague, it was later found the Signal Crawfish was a carrier of that same disease. This is a perfect example of how to not solve a problem but instead make it worse.
When man get's tinkerin around
The Jews also like to poison the wells.
Twice I've applied for a licence to take and keep (kill) signal crayfish and been ignored both times. It appears that if the authorities issue a licence then they need to employ bailiffs to monitor them. That costs money so they would rather have these crayfish obliterate fisheries.
They are just useless lumps. They’d rather keep a few pennies than help prevent an invasive species murder everything
Why do you need a license to catch a non-native invasive species ?
Usual bureaucratic B.S. and a manufactured problem. No one wants the peasants to have access to free food even if it's a "plague". God forbid it would be unregulated. People should stay in their breeding boxes watching propaganda on telly,not gadding about the countryside chasing freshwater lobsters for free. Where's the tax in that?
This looks like a revenue opportunity. Round them up and sell them to restaurants.
Introduce them as a superior delicacy and then over-fish them.. Isn't that the common way to get things extinct?
AlbertLloydy You sound like a animal activist lmao.
Damn Klonoa or a realist
AlbertLloydy since they aren't native there, it doesn't matter when they go extinct over there, actually it would be better for the local eco system.
They just shouldn't go extinct in their native eco system, since that could cause issues
yall have to understand that crawfish will never go extinct. I LIVE in LOUISIANA
blah blah gofuckurselfgoogle uhm... How about learning what an eco system is, how it works, then think for a second what people here are talking about, instead of trying to connect knowledge with wherever you come from?
Eat them into extinction. They are delicious!
If you put crawfish seasoning on dogshit it would be delicious! Crawfish probably do not taste that good but with all the Louisiana spices it tricks my brain pretty well!
Have at it and tell us what you think. They are much like lobster and need nothing more than seasoning and maybe some butter but they are great in cajun cooking. For a country that puts fucking beans on toast this is a downright delicacy. Oh and dont get me going about black and white pudding. Gag
Here in Taxas they wouldnt last
Thats the home of hot curry. Curry is huge in UK
Extinction? Nothing to extinction you fucking idiot.
Mother nature is a prime example of what can go wrong when you introduce a foreign species , this holds truth for mankind when you open the door for foreigners from another country . They can destroy your land and way of life in know time at all .
What do you mean open the door? American Indians, Australian aborigines, New Zealand Maori, Polynesians etc had their lands INVADED by the filthy British. Hundreds of cultures lost and thousands of people dead, no one opened a door for Brittania.
@@graphite2786 I could explain but I don't think you would understand and there just not enough time to give you a history lesson .
@@richardfell9510 Whatever... Dick.
What keeps them from destroying the water courses in the States? We still have fish and frogs and crayfish
klayofthemystics native crayfish, native fish, native frogs. They are adapted to live together. We have different species, not adapted to live with larger, more aggressive US crayfish.
Eat them. Turn this issues into a profitable business for the local fishermen/women. Pay them a few cents each that they catch. Sell them to restaurants or at local farmers markets. Make a market for these creatures.
Phil Martin 😐 Terrible. EU seems a lot like the blue states here in the US.
Phil Martin if u market these creatures they wont kill all of them off to get money
Lion fish and tilapia are introduced and are delicious. Tilapia Is not spectacular but cheap and ok, lion fish are a favorite in some Florida restaurants. Divers hunt them with spear guns.
"fisherman/women" oh the pc age
crumb9cheese I'd say that the farming project worked
So....they are upset about having an overwhelming source of....food?
An overwhelming source of "food" that you arent legally allowed to catch in general and that is full of disease and so killing off many native species.
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable reason to be upset to me :D.
Only way mudbugs get full of disease is living in diseased water.
No, transmission from creature to creature is also a way. And is the case here. Signal crayfish are carriers for a number of diseases, the most important one is known as Crayfish plague, which is an infectious mold. It kills off other crustaceans and has near wiped out native crayfish.
Which is kind of ironic considering that the reason they're even here is because we introduced them, not knowing they were carriers of this disease, after an outbreak of this same disease massively knocked our local populations down. At the time we didnt understand things like disease carrying and invasive species.
Seems to be a trend. Dominant species (us) introduce them (or anything else for that matter like asian carp, zebra muscles) for what ever reason. Only to find they explode and take over.
nunchaku101 The reflection off your tinfoil hat is blinding me.
With the proper traps and a good appetite your problem would be
a minor nuisance in 5 years.
You don't say?
Yeah, I'm thinking you can eat your way out of this problem. How I wish I lived near that stream!
You guys aren't eating them
This is making me so angry lol
Yeah they definitely taste good
@guy c just as a suggestion guy,,
There are too many to Clean them off by eating them, by allmeans eat them but it willnot be enough.
@guy c okie dokie you win
@guy c I'm being facetious
Low country boil, seems easy enough.
You are a good suggester.
God sent you blokes a massive business opportunity.
Signal crayfish, Tilapia, cane toads, rabbits, when we will just leave things alone.
Dispatch a few Cajuns. Problem solved.
Seriously, they are good eating.
Brian Fuller Louisiana style!
Very. Garlic Beer butter red pepper. Boil or steam and eat.
The point isn't wheather they're tasty or not, it's that they kill all of the other species present whereever they're present. The point isn't the food value, its that they destory the beauty that is the British countryside.
You are right Dodge. However. Just the same the US is being invaded by an Asian carp. They are eating and destroying our fresh waterways.We cant stop them but we can slow or even stop their progression by making cat food or even eating them ourselves..They like the crayfish are a delightful dish but are a curse to us just like the crayfish are to you.
@@nuchairco4137 go get um bro
nation wide crayfish boil some kind giant crayfish boil catch them and cook them as often as possible...
Genius. Thanks for the valuable info.
sounds like a tasty meal for sure...
ya what ever your fancy imagine catching these little suckers by the pounds and having big boils for country fun, be a good way too lessen the amount.. me i like old bay a little lemon and a little spicy...
Crawfish etofee will make you run out of crawfish
Guys you better start eating them.
You ever consider a career in education, Scott?
Man I am getting hungry just looking at all those baby lobsters
@Tony Gonzalez sounds delicious!!
@Tony Gonzalez WOW, I bet that tastes real good.
Now you Pommies know how we feel in Australia! You filled us up with foxes, rabbits, carp, cat’s, rats and blackberries. Plus more than i care to remember. It’s not nice is it. 👍🏻🇦🇺
We also founded your country haha if you're ancestors where not criminals you would be European.
@@deanmullen1882 there you go with a typical English Empire mentality. If there’s someone already living on an island you can’t of found it, someone beat you by about 60 Thousand years. 👍🏻🇦🇺
Australia the island of the unwanted.
Our problem in jamaican waters lionfish . Now problem solved. We hunt them and eat them.😄
@Mel Hawk I personally never tried them. I'm allergic to some seafood
@Tony Gonzalez from what I have heard from people who have eaten them. They are scrumptious ☺
Best fish ever
You don't even need a license either! :)))
Iguana too!
I dont care stupid
invasive plague? we over here in california looking for these puppies.
The winning comment. Kudos. $37/lb at Bristol Farms.
Roger Balcer lol
Osvaldo Garcia no, I won't go and do that.
Stuart French go and do it.
Stuart French let it lol
When life gives you lemons you make lemonade, when it gives you mudbugs make gumbo.
Classic
Then how come you need a license to catch them ? doesn't make sense !
Here where i live a kilo of crayfish is more expensive than shrimps they are delicious !!!! Caldo de chacales
how about u do unlimited fishing on them and eat them and sell them. make $$$$
Jesse weaver you mean £££££ haha
To solve the problem, you must unleash the most deadly predator on the planet, MAN!! Start catching and eating these delicious creatures and there will be no problem.
John Cecil ,
It appears that the REAL problem is the government !
at this point, it's probably impossible to eat them out of existence.
alex smith if the government will allow the public to make financial gain from trapping and eating of crayfish, then your problem is solved. I am a avid hunter, fisherman, and conservationist from America. We, unfortunately, managed to wipe out 25 to 30 million American bison in 100 years. Thank goodness we came to our senses on one of our indigenous animals. Since these crayfish are a ferrel animal in the UK, unleash that power on their population and you will be amazed how humans can decimate a population.
trapping them would reduce numbers, but i don't think it is going to solve the problem. these guys are small and breed quick. removing such a small animal is very hard. it is probably impossible to catch them all. plus, there is a fear that people would accidentally catch and eat native crayfish. they can't even get walking catfish out of Florida (and it's a much bigger animal)
Alex Smith, you will never be able to fully eradicate them. Eating them down to small numbers is the only hope you really have. As for the native white claw, that's an easy fix. Set laws and regulations that make sure people are able to identify the ONE species of native crayfish and anything that doesn't look like the native must be one of the countless invasives. I'm not even from there and after doing 2 min of research I'm confident in my ability to tell whether or not a crayfish is a native of Britain.
Have you tried having a cajun crawfish festival?
Nope. Cuz no one thought of that except you.
Fortunately. .signal crayfish are quite tasty. .as long as they are taken from clean water
Sadly river angling has been in decline for some years due to the rise in commercial fisheries which are overstocked giving some anglers easier sport. Thirty years ago the "angling army" would have been much more effective in the fight against the signal menace.
Having lived in the American deep south i developed a great taste for these ......let me at 'em!!😘😘
Dogjust dog you don’t want to eat them they are full of heavy metals and all sorts of pollution that’s why we don’t eat them
@@paulbackhard6315 Thanks man!! You just saved me from a dose...😨
Good to know, Dogjust dog. I'll make a note of that.
I live in Washington and love eating these when I go to lakes or streams
This species is not in the southern American states , this species is from western Canada and the United States west of the Rocky Mountains
I was walking by a small river near Bath a couple of years ago, the path was littered with thousands of these things both dead and dying. I don't know why there were so many out of the water- do they emerge onto land for any reason?
Yes at high tide and after a good day of raining.
The nanny state is a big problem for this issue. Instead of giving open season to people to harvest them, and eat them, they make people jump through hoops to dispose of an invasive species.
so basically they make it hard to get rid of an infestation?lmao....thats fucked up.Now wonder shit dont get done and things have become this way.
Zatarans is missing a marketing opportunity. They could be selling tons of seasoning.
They had this problem in China...now it's a national dish out there...problem solved ;)
Right? Crayfish are delicious, just eat them. Sure enough Brits eat worse things than crayfish.
In this particular situation, the only problem I'd have is not finding a toothpick.....
These things are easy to trap and many people love to eat them. Put some smallmouth bass in those streams and your problem would be gone pretty quick.
Crayfish is the least of Britain 🇬🇧 problems. Some places you can't even go.😂🤦🏻♂️
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Mud crwbs
xLove020306x usa is best place to go. Trumps in power. Usa is crime free now
Rosie Cheeks sarcasm fail
+Rosie Cheeks You aren't free to go unless you illegally migrate, at which point you are essentially no better.
Do you not understand how emigration works?
Make soup out of them. Problem solved. I volunteer to rescue Britain.
I'm with u let's go over help them with their problem
Yeah... but how do we deal with the crayfish ! 🙄😏
EAT THEM TASTH LITTLE GUY. OUR BARS OVER HERE SERVE THEMUP
Come and get your starlings and we'll come get our crayfish and have a crawfish boil.
Or throw some smallmouth bass in there, dads are like crack to them.
Smallmouth bass see crayfish as their natural ENEMY. Because crayfish invade and eat the eggs from fish beds, smallmouth bass Seek and Destroy every crawfish they can find. Way Beyond the numbers they're willing to eat
@@johnshilling2221 Exactly smallmouth see crawfish and lose their minds, also smallmouth would probably survive in a lot of those small streams.
@John Smith Yes, the influx of good ol' boys and Cajuns could overload the local hotels.
Dontcha like starling pie then lol
@@Hailstonepie Never had it but I'll try anything...at least once.
They're a lot in my area but they rejected me licence to trap them for 5th times until I give up... Good luck with trying to get rid of them.
It doesn't take an entrepreneur to figure there's a potential market here for selling them to local markets or restraunts if they're so abundant and without limitations to your catch, you'd drop the population considerably where natives could be reintroduced.
You would *think* so, but I guess the Brits just don't like spicy food, so the *proper* way to fix crawfish might not appeal to them.
@@CurmudgeonExtraordinaire hate spicy food. Hi for 4 years in the future
@@SirFrogIII -- My wife says that my taste buds are dead... I actually found the supplier for the extract that is used to make pepper spray and use it to make my own hot sauce...
Just eat them with butter
I agree, lol
I’ve just seen two large crayfish in a canal in the West Midlands
We’ve got native signal crawfish in my local river and they are DELICIOUS. A big signal can be eight inches or more from tail to claw tip and have 2-3 ounces of meat in it.
Open a chain of Cajun fast food shops. They are delicious. Or ship them to Cajun country;Louisiana. They will eat them
Our (UK) waterways used to have many predatory bird and fish species, also otters and many other river adapted mammals. If we hadn't killed them all with hunting or habitat destruction, they would have collectively acted as an environmental buffer. Then I don't think the crayfish would have stood much of a chance reaching plague proportions.
Well said. The burbot, for example, are known to eat a lot(a lota!) crayfish in certain US lakes and rivers. As one hasn't been seen for more than 50 years, burbot are thought to be extinct in the UK (more specifically eastern England, where they were once native).
Oddly enough, there are a number of areas here in the US that are having problems with certain species of crawfish, which I believe are the same ones you have. Where I live in Ohio, our native species have made it to quite a few places outside our state and have been taking over and pushing out other native species. This particular type is highly invasive.
Only in ohio
Yep, Rusty Crayfish! I just happen to live in their native range in Southwest Ohio, definitely the most commonly seen crayfish here.
Theyre good eating
Signal Crayfish are native to the Pacific Northwest, I am from Washington and remember catching them, but in some waterways signal crayfish are being destroyed by the red swamp crawdad from the Louisiana (the one used most often in commercial crawfishing)
The only bit of sense Packham had made in years
Yet you have to have a permit to fish & eat the American crayfish in the UK.
Oy vey, don't you understand how diversity is a strength? Signal Crayfish do the jobs that our crayfish don't want to do.
They're all highly skilled workers, engineers, doctors, and scientists. Native species can't do that.
you first skippy.
Good one!
@Charlie Rothwill
Fuck of soy boy
BackslideDan 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Great job great information they seem to be more scarce here I remember as a child seeing blue ones and red ones
Infestation? Hell no! That's damn good eating...
This is hilarious, if they have a predator, it could decrease the population. Sadly crayfish is not a diet that a lot of other cultures taken into yet.
mike sixx, I think river otters mostly eat fish so the lack of fish in these heavily infested creeks might be why they haven't moved in. Don't forget that the river otter was nearly extinct in the UK and although their numbers are back up to their strongest sized population since the industrial revolution, they're still not nearly as common as they would need to be to make a dent in the invasive crayfish problem.
American Walleye will eat the ever-living shit out of these things
This is intolerable, how dare you call for persecution of the noble signal crayfish. Just because they wipe out natives and change the whole ecosystem, you should be jailed for your intolerance!
LOL
if only more ppl got it like you get it :p
Have a few crawfish boils in town and the locals will come in bus loads to catch those mud bugs!
Please, explain.
In my neck of the woods across the pond, the Signals are being pushed out by Rusty Crawfish.
Get yeah some small mouth bass in there. Win win.
I know and old lady who swallowed a fly....
phlodel But why did the old lady swallow the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed a fly.
It must have been from the sky
Eat them or sell them to us in Sweden. We eat them in August-september.
Excellent information. So now we have a market, and a season to those who can think.........
You have a great resource! Free food! They are delicious!
Never ate a crawfish but after reading these comments I feel like I’m missing out
The Brits should learn how to like crawfish. Cajun style.
I m a cajun living in philippines n we own 2 hectar rice field n will b trying to grow n cook them here very soon n hopefully will start something like we have in South Louisiana with the crawfish boils. I cannot wait n making me hungry now. God Bless
Why didn't I think of that?
Thats a lot of cray fish and they're not being eaten what a waste.
Southerners: *eyes start glowing*
In Portugal we are dealing with this very problem...
1:53 sounds like another situation relating to invaders in our country
Phil Curtis lol
yeah i see them munching on the local wildlife and greenery whenever i leave my house! it's terrible, we used to have great big ancient oaks here - they've been totally devoured by these invaders.
Ha ha! Whitetrash is a degenerate race that needs replacing. I'm off to Telford saxonshit, mustn't miss the auction. :)
And believe it or not, around Sheffield, Yorkshire, we are NOT allowed to net them unless for scientific research??????, I'd love to feast on them, I find them just as good as lobster.🇬🇧
They taste so good!
Its called lake Newell down by Brooks. Huge man made lake built to supply water to farm lands around the area. Come the end of September they drain the canals every night and you can just walk through them in the morning picking up the crayfish.
golden hands in Uk you're not allowed to do anything without permission, why because you're all cucks, btw don't try to deny it, because I live in England.
golden hands what a shame
So there's a big problem with what they've said and shown. If that Creek was truly ecologically dead except for the crawfish they wouldn't be finding so many small ones. The larger ones would have eaten them up as fast as they could come. The fact that there's an over abundance of small ones in the water means that there's plenty of life in there
I understand the problem. Crawfish will eat anything, including vegetation.
I don't understand why the government makes it so difficult to catch them as a food source. I mean, that's why they were imported in the first place, right?