freshwater crayfish

blowin · freshwater crayfish

I hear that someone has recently started to farm Signals over here . Don't know any further detail but , if it is true , lets hope their biosecurity is better than it was in the UK .
Meanwhile I have discovered that the native crays are actually here in large numbers in some of the lochs . I understand that they are a protected species in the UK , or at least a special permit is required to fish for them there , but am unsure about their status in the ROI . Does anyone know ?

bref

You know the forum has been around while when the admin/main poster cant remember a similar post

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blowin

Can't remember anything these days . I have even misplaced a fully grown boar Laughing

. ( Sorry , that won't mean a thing to other readers ) .

Well spotted . I put it in the wrong place . Not sure what to do with it now that I have found it after all this time Laughing

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quarryman

Blowin, you didn't misplace me, I was here the whole time !

wayland

. On the subject of signals. I hope those who are keeping them know that unlike native crays the signals can support their own weight on dry land. This is how they infested the UK by walking out of the holding tanks. Lovely to eat they are but at what cost to the Trout and Salmon not to mention the smaller native crays. Bad news me thinks.

blowin

Apparently some of the lochs ( eg loch Gill ) are full of the native ones -- the banks are littered with the shells of good sized specimens . I that is true I imagine that the fisheries board might want to control the population by issuing permits to fish for them but I have found no mention of this on their website . Does anyone know ?

bref

Doubt it but have a look at the link below (interesting)
http://www.csp.ecologie.gouv.fr/BFPP/bfpp/Article/367/367p823.pdf