Science 2020! - Mutant crayfish clones overrun Antwerp cemetery!!

[Tonguez]

In the latest offering of 2020 craziness a cemetery in Antwerp has been overrun by hundreds of mutant crayfish.

The marble crayfish is not naturally occuring and are beleived to have once been owned by German pet collectors. They mutated around 25 years ago and can now reproduce asexually. The EU made ownership of the beastie illegal in 2014.

The crayfish can burrow up to a meter into the ground and are a pest who will devour the plants, snails and amphibians in a pond or river, depriving fish of food. Unfortunately, now that it is established, the Flemish do not believe that they will be able to eliminate this pest from the wild.

So how would you use this scenario in your game? And can 2020 get any crazier?

 

[GreyLord]

crawfish boils...lots of crawfish boils

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If they’re edible, invite a bunch of creoles, Cajuns, Ausdies and Chinese to eat them.

If they’re not, call the Cajuns and Chinese anyway...

 

[Zardnaar]

If they're edible send in some kiwi specialists armed with butter and tartare sauce.

We've wiped out 97% of them in the Hauraki Gulf. These ones won't last.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sounds like Zard & I are in if you can get us the work visas.

 

[Zardnaar]

Sounds like Zard & I are in if you can get us the work visas.

Not me not a seafood fan.

They wiped most out in Hauraki Gulf so just fly a kiwis in and supply butter, bbq and some beer.

Shame used to get it for free. Never ate it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

new invasive crawfish: is it edible?

If it is, I don't care what it looks like; Crayfish Clone Invasion Feb 08, 2018 Researchers first became aware of the marbled crayfish when a German aquarium owner contacted them in 1995 after a bag of "Texas crayfish" took over his aquarium, the Atlantic reports. The crayfish, dubbed Marmorkreb ...

www.donrockwell.com

 

[Orius]

There's something about wiping out invasive species by eating them all into local extinction that appeals to my twisted mind.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There's something about wiping out invasive species by eating them all into local extinction that appeals to my twisted mind.

Well...

Eat The Invaders — Fighting Invasive Species, One Bite At A Time!

Fighting Invasive Species, One Bite At A Time!

eattheinvaders.org

 

[MarkB]

There's something about wiping out invasive species by eating them all into local extinction that appeals to my twisted mind.

Just so long as you don't introduce another predatory species to do it on your behalf. Otherwise you're just doing the Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly on an ecological level.