But, “just catching doesn’t make much sense,” says Winnie Rip, ecologist and project leader from Waternet. Rip has received money from the province to set up a large-scale, three-year study here. “You see the numbers decrease when we catch crayfish, but as soon as we stop they come back just as fast.” So not a sustainable solution, especially an expensive one.
American crayfish eats entire polder: ‘Underwater it’s like a desert here’
