closer to home we do some new
information on the battle against the
Louisiana red swamp crawfish we were the
first to show you dNR officials hunting
and digging for the illegal and invasive
species in Michigan so now it is a year
later Paula Tubman is back along the
water to show us what the DNR has
learned in the past 12 months so I want
you to take a look inside this bucket
this is a haul and this is just today
this is the red swamp crayfish and I
know to a lot of people this looks like
a delicacy
it looks like food but in this part of
the country this particular species is
not food it is a serious nuisance and a
danger so this is a fish traps here the
halls are alarming pretty normal Hall
today 273 Louisiana red swamp profit
pulled out of a man-made retention pond
in novi catch rates have been pretty
consistent like this every day once the
once the summer got hot for a year in a
program funded by M D and R or the
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Michigan State University has been a
partner the study and contained this
invasive species they discovered just
last year but they've got a pretty solid
establishment yes they do so um this
species of crayfish
can well--we're what we're finding just
in the first year of really study him is
it looks like they can breed three times
a year a female can have upwards over
700 eggs every time she breeds so you're
looking at 2,000 maybe for a really big
individual maybe 3,000 babies in a year
these are not the creatures of the
Michigan crawfish boil these are an
aggressive invasive species that wreak
havoc with other wildlife as well as our
environment this is what these critters
can do that our native crawfish do not
they dig deep burrows that soften the
ground near waterways the water levels
fluctuate they'll abandon their old
burrows and adjust and so you can see
where they have an old burrow it just
crumbles so if that was someone's
lakefront property they lose
anywhere from six inches to a foot of
their lakefront property some people
have said that a cousin or an aunt or an
uncle has brought up crayfish for boil
and when that happens a lot of them can
accidentally get released in our waters
this particular species of crayfish can
walk over a mile on dry land if the
humidity is high enough so where you put
it isn't necessarily where it ends up
okay so crayfish crawfish tomato tomahto
let's call the whole thing off the
bottom line is in less than a year they
have multiplied almost Sevenfold they
are in at least 20 ponds in lakes in the
area the researchers say it's time to go
drastic and so in the next couple of
weeks are gonna basically D oxygenate
some of these waterways so they can
drive the crawfish out of the borough's
hopefully catching them Karen here's the
thing they could very possibly when they
pump in that co2 kill everything else in
here but it's a chance they feel like
they have to take to stop these critters
are the tracks I mean the fact that they
multiplied seven times fold I mean
that's just unbelievable you mentioned
the word they hopefully can figure this
out in terms of containment what are the
odds on this Paula how likely well they
feel like that if they can get them
right now they can get this handled now
and again a lot of people say yeah this
is food just sell them as food there are
other native species they can eat these
are so dangerous and damaging they've
got to get rid of them alright Paula
Chapman live for us we appreciate the
update and we know you will stay on top
of it thank you
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