can any help me identify this creatures. we have plenty of them in our fresh water
outlets and some people find them delicious. However, there is a recent articles
about them which is not good. can you enlighten me please.

Pictures?

Hmm not working for me

Me either Paul We need pics!

there it is. i was able to fixed it but could not make it larger

Those are crayfish! And we have LOTS of them here too! Lots of people eat them.

I was expecting some wild looking never been seen crayfish like creatures!!!

Those are just crayfish, completely harmless unless they grab your finger, lol. The Americans really love to eat them. Us Canadians dont really touch them unless we use them for bait fishing.

yeah, i know it a cray fish but thought it may be differ in other parts of
the world. i love to eat that creatures too but shocked to see this articles
about them:

I guess they would be the same as anything else Paul, it will depend on where you get them..

i fully understand that... but what worry me is the attitude of those
people who just want to make money. they could get a lot of them in a place
where they should not and sell them somewhere else.

but to analyzed it, this crayfish is no different from an scavenger squid..
isn't it?????

i think to that people must be getting them from poor suppliers that are picking them up from sewage outlets. if you get a crayfish from a lake its hardly going to be full of crap. i agree they will eat dead fish etc but so will fish.?

i cant speak for the rest of the world, but they farm those crayfish down in south louisianna in huge stocked lakes built just for the purpose and they feed them pelletized foods. no sewage plants involved lol. there is still a huge wild caught population but they put that on the container, its either farm raised, or wild caught. i would think that the cooking process, where you boil them alive, i would think that would kill any parasites in them, and if that doesnt, the hot pepper sauce should finish off the rest that managed to live lol.


those babys are a favorite of mine! curled tails n pinched heads! good stuff!!!



MMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


edit: i forgot to mention, here they are sold live. you cook them alive. if you cook a live crawfish, the tail curls up on it really tight. if you find a cooked crawfish with a straight tail, dont eat it because it was dead when cooked and may be bad.