What is it about?

This paper pulls together research on the worldwide pet trade in crayfish, asking questions like: which crayfish are the most traded? How are crayfish being moved around the globe? How can we study the trade of crayfish?

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Why is it important?

Crayfish often cause major problems when they are introduced into new habitats, and the pet trade is now one of the major ways that people are moving crayfish into new habitats.

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Zen Faulkes
The Umiversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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This page is a summary of: The global trade in crayfish as pets, Crustacean Research, January 2015, Carcinological Society of Japan,
DOI: 10.18353/crustacea.44.0_75.
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