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re: Australian crawfish invading Texas

Posted on 8/15/22 at 8:46 am to
Posted by RummelTiger
Texas
Member since Aug 2004
89837 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 8:46 am to
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I heard you can even eat the poo poo.


Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
113939 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 8:50 am to
Hey Rummel. I hope you have a good day today.

Those things look like a hybrid lobster and crawfish.
Posted by Abstract Queso Dip
Member since Mar 2021
5878 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 8:51 am to
Crikey! As long as I don't get any in my budgie smugglers. It will be a beauty!
Posted by FreddieMac
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2010
20985 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 8:53 am to
They try to invade Louisiana but cannot survive long enough to get a foothold. Pierre and Boudreaux take care of that problem every April.
Posted by RummelTiger
Texas
Member since Aug 2004
89837 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 8:54 am to
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Hey Rummel. I hope you have a good day today.



You, as well, Oweo.

quote:

Those things look like a hybrid lobster and crawfish.


I would eat one fo sho!
Posted by Weekend Warrior79
Member since Aug 2014
16348 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 9:04 am to
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What's the problem?

Probably screws with how long you need to let them soak.
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
67482 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 9:06 am to
quote:

get the boiling pot ready

As big as those things are you're going to need a vat
Posted by adam2000
Central
Member since Sep 2016
1040 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 9:18 am to
Iwei
Posted by Tiger Prawn
Member since Dec 2016
21881 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 9:29 am to
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Tiger prawn and Aussie crawfish...
Posted by AUCE05
Member since Dec 2009
42559 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 9:33 am to
They will never make it
Posted by gerald65
Moss Bluff, LA
Member since Jul 2020
710 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 9:36 am to
These Australian crawfish are not a "new" thing.

Back in the late '60's USL [Lafayette] did a study to see if they could be grown here in Louisiana.
This post was edited on 8/15/22 at 9:37 am
Posted by junior
baton rouge
Member since Mar 2005
2246 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 12:59 pm to
So what was the conclusion?

I suspect I have my answer if I’m not eating 1lb crawfish- man, that would bisque sooo much easier.
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
65697 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 1:20 pm to

Saw a show where Gordon Ramsey climbed up a high ridge in New Zealand for freshwater cray. They're enormous. He treated them like lobster but technically, they aren't. Looked like some fine eating.
Posted by CJD4LSU
Ray-Vegas, La
Member since Sep 2006
3504 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 1:21 pm to
Helluva swim.
Posted by TaderSalad
mudbug territory
Member since Jul 2014
24640 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 1:41 pm to
They better stay over there if they want to stay off the endangered species list.

Boudreaux don play around
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
53854 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 1:42 pm to
quote:

Saw a show where Gordon Ramsey climbed up a high ridge in New Zealand for freshwater cray. They're enormous. He treated them like lobster but technically, they aren't. Looked like some fine eating.

I didn't care for the part where I berated the poor creatures before he boiled them alive.
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
8623 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 2:06 pm to
Those claws are Stone Crab sized. And a fine butter delivery system.

So, some greedy sea gulls see them from a distance, swoop down (accustomed as they are to crawfish farm buffets), and find that these crawfish can fight back.
This post was edited on 8/15/22 at 2:09 pm
Posted by CrawDude
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
5264 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 2:33 pm to
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These Australian crawfish are not a "new" thing. Back in the late '60's USL [Lafayette] did a study to see if they could be grown here in Louisiana.

True.

Both Auburn University and the LSU AgCenter in the 90’s did extensive research in assessing their potential for cultivation in the USA, Auburn in particular. .

But they are semi-tropical/tropical - can’t survive the winter outdoors in Louisiana. Of course the Rio Grande Valley, that borders Mexico, I guess is far enough south that it looks like they can survive winters, at least until a particular harsh one does them in.

They are very good to eat though, no doubt about that.
Posted by Glorious
Mobile
Member since Aug 2014
24475 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 3:10 pm to
Apparently the American Crayfish have fricked up England’s riverbanks pretty bad. They purposely introduced them because they became popular for the Brits, but the local species are tiny

This post was edited on 8/15/22 at 3:13 pm
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65814 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 3:11 pm to
quote:

these crawfish can fight back.



i'd watch !
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