[Newsbot]

Title: 'Just like lobster': North Saskatchewan River crawling with crayfish
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2017-08-02 14:13:07
Canadian

[Hyack]

Mmmmmmmm cradads are delicious, a friend and myself used to pull them out of the Pitt river back in the '80s, thanks to a friend of his who had trapped them for, I think the Swedish government to replenish their stocks, in return he got to keep the traps.

[DrCaleb]

When I first read this story, I had no idea the river out my window had these creature. Lived here a long time, fished in that river a lot.

Found out they are invasive. Looks like a trip to the river with a cooler full of ice is in order!

I remember those lobster boils at the family homestead in Halifax. Good times!

[BartSimpson]

$1:

No license is required to capture them by hand, but transporting live crayfish or using them as bait is illegal.

Then you should cook them before you transport them. It's not a very good idea to cook them after they're dead...

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

$1:

No license is required to capture them by hand, but transporting live crayfish or using them as bait is illegal.

Then you should cook them before you transport them. It's not a very good idea to cook them after they're dead...

I've never cooked crayfish before - can't you pith them and put them on ice, and cook them later?

Might be inconvenient to have to cook them right away, but you gotta do what you gotta do!

[BartSimpson]

Were it me I'd put them on ice until I got home and then I'd boil them.

This is one of those cases where the law is running afoul of common sense (for people who eat crayfish).

Even Wiki got this right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayfish_as_food

$1:

Boiled crayfish which died before boiling are safe to eat if they were kept chilled before boiling and were not dead for a long time.

[DrCaleb]

Figured it was OK to keep them on ice. But since you can't transport them live, you'd have to put them down. A knife in the ganglial cortex does the trick.