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This Is Worrying

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  • #2
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,010 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Eddie B wrote: »
    http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/253237/crayfish-plague-threatens-to-wipe-out-stock-in-rathkeale-s-river-deel.html


    It certainly is - this species was already under pressure from pollution and drainage etc.....this could be the final nail in the coffin:(


  • #3
    Eddie B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,995 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    If it reaches the Shannon, then it really does get serious.


  • #4
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,010 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Eddie B wrote: »
    If it reaches the Shannon, then it really does get serious.

    I wonder could some be taken into captivity until the plague passes to act as a donor population??


  • #5
    Eddie B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,995 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    I wonder could some be taken into captivity until the plague passes to act as a donor population??

    Well that would be a huge task. How long would it take for a river system to recover from a total species wipe out. I honestly don't know enough about this plague. How it works, or how long it remains in a river system. Whether immunity can be developed in time etc. If it's as bad as they say, then it may be too late already.


  • #6
    Half-cocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    And we're getting into the season when there is a huge rise in recreational use of waterways so the risk of spreading is increased:(


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  • #7
    magicbastarder
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    yeah, i have heard speculation that boats or fishing gear being used on different rivers is the big risk; that the plague will die out in a river if the crayfish die, but the problem is it being artificially transferred between rivers.


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