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Originally Posted by echinosum
Yes, they are very tasty. They look less weird once de-shelled, similar to prawns.
The mitten crabs undermining the banks of the Thames are also very edible, and highly prized by the Chinese.
Quite why we don't establish fisheries for these things, and over-fish them to rareness, is beyond me. But perhaps that is difficult to do without damaging by-catch.
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I think they've at least thought of catching the american crayfish for food. They decided against encouraging it because of the very real danger that some people would also take the british crayfish (either deliberately or accidentally), so that you'd probably be making the situation worse.
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