White-Clawed Crayfish Breeding Program

Crayfish

At Yorkshire Dales, in order to stop the decline of white-clawed crayfish a new breeding program was taking place and produced this year 300 young  crayfish. This breeding project began at 2003 by the Natural England, the government’s conservation body, and is now looking to expend it to new 500 crayfish every year.

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