'Highly aggressive’ invasive crawfish take hold across Connecticut
News 12 Staff
Updated on: Jul 19, 2021, 10:18pm
Connecticut Fish and Wildlife officials are urging
residents to be on the lookout for an aggressive new species of crawfish.
The division of the state’s Department of Energy and
Environmental Protection posted to Facebook last week after dozens of the
large, invasive crawfish were reported all over the state.
“Way better boiled than released!” the post said. “Lately
the Fisheries Division has fielded multiple calls about large ‘lobster-like’
crawfish loose in the environment. Many of these have turned out to be a
non-native and highly aggressive ‘red-swamp crawfish’ which are easily