I would love to see the DAMAGE this species of beautiful shrimp has cause on other areas .. seems like demonizing a new species surviving spreading in the wild naturally.
@mattsavage Yes I would like to see the “DAMAGE”, many different species can live in the same stream and waters multiple species fish shrimps can survive in the same environment.
@ they say it in the video and have a demonstration. “ every time a red swamp crayfish from Louisiana or a rusty crayfish from the upper Midwest comes head to head with Oregon’s native signal crayfish the signal loses.” I.e. invasive non native crayfish kill our native Oregon crawdads
@ they mention it and give a demonstration in the video “every time a red swamp crayfish from Louisiana or a rusty crayfish from the upper midwest comes head to head with Oregons signal crayfish. The signal crayfish loses …” meaning our native crayfish is being wiped out by the invasive species
"We actually put them in a bag and put them in the freezer, so that was a very painless way for them to go..." 🤣 I can't be the only one who's wondering if the teachers lounge had gumbo in the crock-pot the next day.
Would using native crayfish be an option for use in classrooms? Are the non native crayfish edible for human consumption and or wildlife rehabilitation centers food sources? Perhaps a possible fishing bait or aquarium food sources?
Down here in the south we got a thang called a crawdad boil. Taters, onions, sausage and of course the star of the show, the crawdad. Delicious. Problem solved
In SoCal (when not in flames) has invasive crayfish. Nearby creek I’d take Cub Scouts to catch them using bacon and string. Lower string/bacon and they grab and won’t let go. The creek is feed by reservoir that allows fishing. The crayfish are red. Big and red. Louisiana? Probably from fishermen who use them as bait. When water is let out here come the crayfish. And yes, they are crowding out the native crayfish. Anyway it’s instant gratification fishing for the younger kids. And a lesson on aquatic species. And about invasive species. I could tie it in to several lessons. Even knot tying.
They’ll eventually be replaced by the even more successful invasive Virile Crayfish like has happened here in Maryland. 15 Yrs ago there were Rustysides everywhere replacing our native Spotted and Mole crayfish which I haven’t found a single specimen in years. All I find here are the Virile crayfish now.
A thought/recommendation, regarding the schools and what to do with the crawfish at the end of the year. In the fish keeping/aquarium hobby, freezing is unfortunately not considered a humane form of euthanasia. The best recommended method is using clove oil. In small doses, clove oil can be used as an anesthetic for fish, which is a huge reason for its use with euthanasia, as you literally put the fish to sleep before increasing the concentration to a fatal level, allowing it to pass quickly and without pain. I suspect the same method could be used for crawfish (though it may take higher concentrations) and clove oil is cheap, easy to access, and it goes a long way. Even if the teacher had to pay out of pocket for it, it should be a viable option (a bottle is maybe $10, and for as little as would be needed if they require a similar dose to aquarium fish, one bottle would likely be enough for at least 2-3 years worth of crawdads, depending on how much water it was being added to). Instructions for how to follow this method are also readily available online through numerous free websites.
That's Oregon public schools for you. Blow taxpayer dollars shipping what they could catch here in an hour. Then create an environmental hazard on top of it.
Fresh water lobsters with no bag limit. You know they farm and sell cray fish in the south. A lot of rice farmers put crayfish in their rice fields and farm them on the side to boost their income.
They are in the longtom system near eugene also caught a few 5 or 6 years ago their here to stay thanks to some teachers that didnt want to keep them over the summer or euthanize them at the end of the school year
the kids let them loose...invasive species while these teachers dont teach them not to release them? what are they teaching them? again our education system has failed....and a teacher that didnt know that these were invasive? what a twit
It didn't "hop" here itself... The video description says they were classroom projects that were sent to the west coast - then dumped in waterways...so why would Jeff word his initial statement in a way that makes it seem as if the crayfish walked its own way here?? And whose dumb idea was it to use non-native crayfish??? Ridiculously stupid!!!
Okay, so these Brownies are more prolific, but what is the downside. Do they eat fish eggs? Can’t fish eat them? What negative effect does their presence have on the river ecosystem?
All great questions. Counter-intervention must be justified by a balanced risk / reward calculus. 'Invasion' need not always be a bad thing. Imagine a local (Tualatin) culinary phenomenon with a complementary market for the by-products of processing (fertilizer, poultry-feed, etc.).
@@blfzhn7716 I'm thinking of a Crawfish Etoufee based on a crop harvested from cold, fresh, moving water in competition with Louisiana 'mud-bugs'. Paired with a nice Willamette Valley red-blend wine. 😘
Rusty mudbugs have a less selective diet. They don't grow as large and don't taste as good as our native signal crayfish because of their diet. IIRC, signals prefer to eat carcasses of spawned trout and salmon which are declining due to dams, pollutants, habitat loss, etc. So the non-natives that will eat almost anything are out competing them. Because non-natives don't grow as large and get tossed back poaching and over fishing of signals is probably also a contributing factor.
WHO knew that for every action there is an equal reaction. Man can and will affect their environment, sometimes good, but mostly bad. thank you for teaching me, us!
Incredible. Teach them how the school system went wrong and how to correct the problem. Then, act on correcting the school boards bucket biology disaster program.
Im just surprised that it isn't a video about how all strayt huwhite mehn are pure Eevuhl. Maybe that's why its from 14 years ago. Before the insanity.
Yes, I never looked up the species I was giving before I would ever consider bringing into my state. Realize me it was an invasive species. You see I have a masters degree, and I have to go through several forms of testing to verify was an intelligent person and could teach others. And I would never put such an animal in a stream because I’m a good person. No I didn’t believe a single word coming out of her mouth. Yes I believe she is released crayfish live in the streams. In fact, I bet she’s made a part of some of her students final days in her classroom a celebration of life😂
Looks like a small lobster to me. All you need to do is put food trucks along side of the river and charge a dollar a dozen. And look for the food truck that has the best Recipe problem solved !!
4:42 had to cut off that kid as he was unintentionally describing the genocide of countless First Nation bands and tribes who inhabited what is now called America. 😮🫢 As the kid is wearing a shirt that reads RAIDERS 😅 you can't make up this stuff
Crayfish from cool clean streams/rivers tastes great. For the schools, send those crayfish to the Home Economics class for a culinary lesson.
I would love to see the DAMAGE this species of beautiful shrimp has cause on other areas .. seems like demonizing a new species surviving spreading in the wild naturally.
@@alpaz7634 did you watch the video?
@mattsavage
Yes I would like to see the “DAMAGE”,
many different species can live in the same stream and waters multiple species fish shrimps can survive in the same environment.
@ they say it in the video and have a demonstration. “ every time a red swamp crayfish from Louisiana or a rusty crayfish from the upper Midwest comes head to head with Oregon’s native signal crayfish the signal loses.”
I.e. invasive non native crayfish kill our native Oregon crawdads
@ they mention it and give a demonstration in the video “every time a red swamp crayfish from Louisiana or a rusty crayfish from the upper midwest comes head to head with Oregons signal crayfish. The signal crayfish loses …” meaning our native crayfish is being wiped out by the invasive species
"We actually put them in a bag and put them in the freezer, so that was a very painless way for them to go..."
🤣 I can't be the only one who's wondering if the teachers lounge had gumbo in the crock-pot the next day.
Those children all seemed very bright.
Show them how to catch and cook them also.
How about dragging the companies selling these invasive species into court?
Seriously!!!
Selling live animals / plants of any kind should at least be under a bit more scrutiny than your average amazon package.
@@andrewlalis while I love the convenience of getting plants from the Internet willy-nilly, I have to agree.
The people ORDERING the crayfish should be drug into court.
A little Cajun seasoning some potato and corn and your local gas station is in big business. Mud Bugs are good eat'n.
Would using native crayfish be an option for use in classrooms?
Are the non native crayfish edible for human consumption and or wildlife rehabilitation centers food sources? Perhaps a possible fishing bait or aquarium food sources?
Yes to all above except bait unless they are dead
Exactly a natural source of food not only to native species/animals but also us survivalists and homesteaders..
Can we eat em?
my thoughts exactly!!
@@alexrosas9827 yes
Yes much more meat than the original red crayfish
I was going to ask the same thing. Most are I believe. 😊
Catch n cook!! They make good bait too!
Like Michael Jackson said. Just eat it! Show people how to trap, how to cook and how to eat them.
Yep Bass live crawfish
Down here in the south we got a thang called a crawdad boil. Taters, onions, sausage and of course the star of the show, the crawdad. Delicious. Problem solved
Is there an update on this story? It was originally aired 14 years ago?
Yeah we need an update.
This was filmed in the state of Jefferson. Sadly, the state no longer exists as it was devoured by crayfish.
I used to find a TON of Crayfish in the Rogue River down river from Grants Pass
Thats scary. Lobster valley just right there also. Maybe they should teach the kids how to cook em to. Noticed how they didnt mention that.
Are they edible? Could they be sold to restaurants? I know this is being used in the Caribbean to try and deal with the Lion Fish invasion.
so are they still here? it's been a decade of work, did it pay off?
If you buy plants online there are regional and international jurisdictions. Why was this company allowed to ship invasive species?
In SoCal (when not in flames) has invasive crayfish. Nearby creek I’d take Cub Scouts to catch them using bacon and string. Lower string/bacon and they grab and won’t let go. The creek is feed by reservoir that allows fishing. The crayfish are red. Big and red. Louisiana? Probably from fishermen who use them as bait. When water is let out here come the crayfish. And yes, they are crowding out the native crayfish.
Anyway it’s instant gratification fishing for the younger kids. And a lesson on aquatic species. And about invasive species. I could tie it in to several lessons. Even knot tying.
Sounds like red swamp crawfish
We have crayfish in Saskatchewan too.
They’ll eventually be replaced by the even more successful invasive Virile Crayfish like has happened here in Maryland. 15
Yrs ago there were Rustysides everywhere replacing our native Spotted and Mole crayfish which I haven’t found a single specimen in years.
All I find here are the Virile crayfish now.
Gonna have to over fish them and eat them.
Liberal dilemma #327
Those are really bass snacks.
They are edible and they taste pretty good. A local Iowa Chinese buffet serves them on the weekends
They are not nearly as bad as your rusty hobos.
I didn’t need to understand your comment to enjoy it
You can cook them
And fish eat them especially bass. Which are found all over Oregon
A thought/recommendation, regarding the schools and what to do with the crawfish at the end of the year. In the fish keeping/aquarium hobby, freezing is unfortunately not considered a humane form of euthanasia. The best recommended method is using clove oil. In small doses, clove oil can be used as an anesthetic for fish, which is a huge reason for its use with euthanasia, as you literally put the fish to sleep before increasing the concentration to a fatal level, allowing it to pass quickly and without pain. I suspect the same method could be used for crawfish (though it may take higher concentrations) and clove oil is cheap, easy to access, and it goes a long way. Even if the teacher had to pay out of pocket for it, it should be a viable option (a bottle is maybe $10, and for as little as would be needed if they require a similar dose to aquarium fish, one bottle would likely be enough for at least 2-3 years worth of crawdads, depending on how much water it was being added to). Instructions for how to follow this method are also readily available online through numerous free websites.
What is their natural predator? Herons ?
Is there a safe
That's Oregon public schools for you. Blow taxpayer dollars shipping what they could catch here in an hour. Then create an environmental hazard on top of it.
Perfect summary.
Figure out how to tax it.
@@jamesklaatu9359 Taxes solve ALL problems. My liberal public school teacher said so. Also, I'm a girl now.
@@whiskeymonk4085 congrats hayyy
Looks like some fine fishing bait to me.
Fresh water lobsters with no bag limit. You know they farm and sell cray fish in the south. A lot of rice farmers put crayfish in their rice fields and farm them on the side to boost their income.
Sounds like it’s time to head to the John Day for a crayfish boil. 😋
Welp the kids are having fun 🎉
Was that kid talking about crayfish or manifest destiny?
Dang, even the crawfish leaving the state of Louisiana 😂
Those Ohio refugees never saw Louisiana....
We used to catch a bunch and then eat them all. Start substituting shrimp for invasive crayfish in restaurants.
Is that Peewee Herman's brother?
Crawdad boil! That’s what we did with em growing up :)
They are in the longtom system near eugene also caught a few 5 or 6 years ago their here to stay thanks to some teachers that didnt want to keep them over the summer or euthanize them at the end of the school year
Bleeding hearts.
How are they moving?
Waterfowl?
Keep watching the video, you stopped too soon.
Maybe you could harvest the natural species and keep them for reintroduction after the invasive were eliminated.
They are edible ... freshwater shrimp , I'm surprised that these kids are not being taught that as well.
Leave it to the teachers to mess up another system. Imagine that!
This would be a great way to tell students how Europeans invaded the continent and crowded out the natives.
What you refer to as natives displaced the ones before them....
HOME SCHOOL TO PROTECT EVERYTHING
Yum!
Happy Mardi Gras, y’all!
Sounds like a good Crab boil to me
Tiny little lobsters need tiny pads of butter
Lmao! Biology teachers introducing invasive species around the country inadvertently.
Dummmm
These guys can be small but mighty tasty.
the kids let them loose...invasive species while these teachers dont teach them not to release them? what are they teaching them? again our education system has failed....and a teacher that didnt know that these were invasive? what a twit
Vote blue no matter who.
They should do field trips to Louisiana to let them go.
The rusty crawfish isn't from Louisiana
It didn't "hop" here itself...
The video description says they were classroom projects that were sent to the west coast - then dumped in waterways...so why would Jeff word his initial statement in a way that makes it seem as if the crayfish walked its own way here??
And whose dumb idea was it to use non-native crayfish??? Ridiculously stupid!!!
Okay, so these Brownies are more prolific, but what is the downside. Do they eat fish eggs? Can’t fish eat them? What negative effect does their presence have on the river ecosystem?
All great questions. Counter-intervention must be justified by a balanced risk / reward calculus. 'Invasion' need not always be a bad thing. Imagine a local (Tualatin) culinary phenomenon with a complementary market for the by-products of processing (fertilizer, poultry-feed, etc.).
@Doc.Holiday
I was thinking the same thing. This might not be the end of the world. I like to think that if they are thriving, well, thats nature.
@@blfzhn7716 I'm thinking of a Crawfish Etoufee based on a crop harvested from cold, fresh, moving water in competition with Louisiana 'mud-bugs'. Paired with a nice Willamette Valley red-blend wine. 😘
Rusty mudbugs have a less selective diet. They don't grow as large and don't taste as good as our native signal crayfish because of their diet. IIRC, signals prefer to eat carcasses of spawned trout and salmon which are declining due to dams, pollutants, habitat loss, etc. So the non-natives that will eat almost anything are out competing them. Because non-natives don't grow as large and get tossed back poaching and over fishing of signals is probably also a contributing factor.
@ … and you know this how?
That sucks
More food for the fish
WHO knew that for every action there is an equal reaction. Man can and will affect their environment, sometimes good, but mostly bad. thank you for teaching me, us!
Incredible.
Teach them how the school system went wrong and how to correct the problem. Then, act on correcting the school boards bucket biology disaster program.
Why cant they eat them...lots of butter with garlic and stirfry
Well, the schools should be fined for the introduction of invasive species the same as individuals would be
Introduce otters they will eat them. They will do a far better job of controlling them than we can
Collect them and sell them. I’m sure people will buy them.
Thespians , obviously from the men’s haircut
Im just surprised that it isn't a video about how all strayt huwhite mehn are pure Eevuhl. Maybe that's why its from 14 years ago. Before the insanity.
Why do the teachers look like Liz Warren 🙄
I thought crayfish were like mini lobsters and were eaten.
what to do with the crayfish???…SCHOOL LUNCH!
Crayfish gumbo is yummy.
Once the public figures out how good these taste, there will be traps all over
Build that wall😂
Free food
Crawdads
We knew Oregon teachers were to blame again
Eat um
Once again, it's the children that are the problem ( just kidding, i would gave never guessed! )
If you build some dams they'll leave
This is the era of dam removal.
Are they non gmo , sustainable & gluten free??😂
Yes, I never looked up the species I was giving before I would ever consider bringing into my state. Realize me it was an invasive species. You see I have a masters degree, and I have to go through several forms of testing to verify was an intelligent person and could teach others. And I would never put such an animal in a stream because I’m a good person. No I didn’t believe a single word coming out of her mouth. Yes I believe she is released crayfish live in the streams. In fact, I bet she’s made a part of some of her students final days in her classroom a celebration of life😂
Masters degree? SMH
I take it that English wasn't your major____or even a minor subject?
Oh my what are we gonna do with all these walking food lol
Looks like a small lobster to me. All you need to do is put food trucks along side of the river and charge a dollar a dozen. And look for the food truck that has the best Recipe problem solved !!
4:42 had to cut off that kid as he was unintentionally describing the genocide of countless First Nation bands and tribes who inhabited what is now called America. 😮🫢 As the kid is wearing a shirt that reads RAIDERS 😅 you can't make up this stuff