American crayfish

This is mainly due to a fungal disease they can carry called crayfish plague, which is harmless to American crayfish but is fatal to native crayfish.

In this Wednesday, May 30, 2018 photo, Berlin's fisherman Klaus Hidde shows an American Crayfish after the crab was captured at a small river in the Britzer Garden park in Berlin.

Among their duties will be the control of predator species such as the American crayfish, seals and buzzards.

These are Britain's only native crayfish, and were already under threat from disease, climate change, habitat degradation and competition from the more aggressive American crayfish, which were introduced for food in the late 1970s.

It might have sounded like a good idea for the lobsters, but heaven knows what disease they could have spread amongst the UK stocks, as happened with the native river crayfish, when American crayfish were let loose.

An explanation for the distribution of a North American crayfish. Ecology 35: 573-575.

I NEEDED to call into Environmental Services at Broadgate House after finding what was identified as an American Crayfish in my garage.

This North American crayfish has been introduced into many European watersheds.

That fact that self-styled headmaster of old school crime Tom Wilkinson's chosen method of torture is to have his victims bitten by crayfish - like a poor man's Blofeld - takes a little of the sting out of his villainy "A friend of mine had his river banks eaten away by American crayfish. This is an issue in the English countryside which is much neglected.

In our rivers the war against American crayfish is almost lost.

North American crayfish 5 to 7 inches (12 to 17 centimeters) long are considered large.

Light- and electron microscopic analysis of the statocyst of the American crayfish Orconectes limosus (Crustacea, Decapoda).