Abstract

My first encounter with crayfish was when, as a little boy of 10, my late Aunt Bertha took me by train to see some friends at Derby in England. We sat on some steps in some kind of small park with a stream at the bottom of the steps. As I threw crumbs to the scores of minnows, I saw what I thought to be little green lobsters. I told Aunt Bertha to come and see and she said they must be lobsters thrown in by the fishermen. She was a simple country woman and knew nothing about lobsters or crayfish as we did not have these things in our part of the country. Of course I know now that I must have seen Austropotamobius pallipes.

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