An invasive crayfish native to the southern U.S. has been found in Ontario waters. Here’s why officials say you shouldn’t eat it

Lucian Pârvulescu, a professor at the Western University of Timisoara, became a crayfish researcher almost by chance. In 2007, when Romania implemented the Natura 2000 network, the EU's main instrument for nature conservation, he was co-opted as a crustacean expert and began studying crayfish in the Apuseni Mountains, he himself told in an interview for e-Bihoreanul.At that time, all scientists knew that in the streams of Apuseni and in the Bant…

An invasive crayfish native to the southern U.S. has been found in Ontario waters. Here’s why officials say you shouldn’t eat it

Ontario wildlife officials are mobilizing to help mitigate the damage posed by invasive red swamp crayfish, newly detected in southwestern Ontario last fall.