I'm moving back to England and starting a crawfish export business. The Royal Crawfish Company. I'll make a bloody fortune.

Doesn’t sound like a problem, sounds like dinner

I can solve your problem with a single item. Zatarain's crab boil.

Not a problem that cant be solved with boiling water; salt pepper and butter!

You called the wrong people... you call American Southerners, particularly the Cajuns. They'll show you how to clear that problem right up!

if it's edible and it's free the solution is quite simple.

leave them alone! my little brother was lost in the woods when he was a child and was taken in by a crayfish family that raised him until he was 22.

A good meal once a week for the British army should trim these down to manageable numbers

Once u have a nation wide competition 6for the best dishes/receipe with this crayfish, there wont be enough of this crustackm

Y’all need a couple of Cajuns from south Louisiana to show you what to do with these things.

A problem? You guys head over to Cajun country in Louisiana and they'll show you how to throw a crawfish boil. You're sitting on a golden egg.

The rise of anti-crayfishism in the UK is alarming.

Holy crap! You have a gold mine there of crayfish!!! Get the water boiling!! Whoooooooweeeeee.

Here in Texas sometimes when our pond dries due to drought it will stay dry for years and it is HOT and you'd think nothing would be able to survive those hellish conditions but you'd be wrong, if you start digging you'll find them and they'll be fat and happy as if nothing bad is happening. They are the perfect plague.

Three words Zatarans Crawfish Boil. Problem solved. Laisier Bon Temps Roule!

If you want help, you need people that are from Louisiana. As we say back home, "that's good eating".

Drastic measures? A boiling pot, water and seasoning are hard to locate? If so I’d say the situation is very critical.

Release some of their natural predators... Cajuns and Vietnamese people.

Just catch the dam critters, and invite the whole block for a crayfish boil.

Mother nature is a prime example of what can go wrong when you introduce a foreign species , this holds truth for mankind when you open the door for foreigners from another country . They can destroy your land and way of life in know time at all .

if only Brits had any taste buds they would boil these guys up in a nice mudbug cook out like we do down here in Texas

simple solution.....eat them

Send 10 to 12 minutes of boiling water down the river, followed by some melted butter

I wish there was a market for wild caught signal crayfish in the UK. I’ve never eaten crayfish before but I have had lobster, and I think crayfish tastes similar to lobster.

Seen them to Louisiana and Texas we love them here, we can't get enough of this.

Introduced to England because the native species was being decimated by a crawfish plague, it was later found the Signal Crawfish was a carrier of that same disease. This is a perfect example of how to not solve a problem but instead make it worse.

This looks like a revenue opportunity. Round them up and sell them to restaurants.

0:08 looks like there used to be a thick forest there, cut down for ship building to try to build an empire. Now it looks desolate. Should have kept the forest.

In Russia we cook them and eat them with beer. Its very delicious!! Try it!!

Export them in Southern US states

Twice I've applied for a licence to take and keep (kill) signal crayfish and been ignored both times. It appears that if the authorities issue a licence then they need to employ bailiffs to monitor them. That costs money so they would rather have these crayfish obliterate fisheries.

Signal crayfish, Tilapia, cane toads, rabbits, when we will just leave things alone.

A little Old Bay seasonings and some hot sauce you got a meal

Eat them. Turn this issues into a profitable business for the local fishermen/women. Pay them a few cents each that they catch. Sell them to restaurants or at local farmers markets. Make a market for these creatures.

What keeps them from destroying the water courses in the States? We still have fish and frogs and crayfish

God sent you blokes a massive business opportunity.

Eat them into extinction. They are delicious!

Introduce them as a superior delicacy and then over-fish them.. Isn't that the common way to get things extinct?

In this particular situation, the only problem I'd have is not finding a toothpick.....

With the proper traps and a good appetite your problem would be a minor nuisance in 5 years.

So....they are upset about having an overwhelming source of....food?

Man I am getting hungry just looking at all those baby lobsters

Now you Pommies know how we feel in Australia! You filled us up with foxes, rabbits, carp, cat’s, rats and blackberries. Plus more than i care to remember. It’s not nice is it. 👍🏻🇦🇺

The natural predator of the Cray is ......the human boy. Sadly they are watching poxy computer games.

When life gives you lemons you make lemonade, when it gives you mudbugs make gumbo.

Seriously, they are good eating.

Fortunately. .signal crayfish are quite tasty. .as long as they are taken from clean water

Yeah, I'm thinking you can eat your way out of this problem. How I wish I lived near that stream!

Low country boil, seems easy enough.

Guys you better start eating them.

Then how come you need a license to catch them ? doesn't make sense !

We’ve got native signal crawfish in my local river and they are DELICIOUS. A big signal can be eight inches or more from tail to claw tip and have 2-3 ounces of meat in it.

Dispatch a few Cajuns. Problem solved.

Sadly river angling has been in decline for some years due to the rise in commercial fisheries which are overstocked giving some anglers easier sport. Thirty years ago the "angling army" would have been much more effective in the fight against the signal menace.

Crawfish etofee will make you run out of crawfish

Oddly enough, there are a number of areas here in the US that are having problems with certain species of crawfish, which I believe are the same ones you have. Where I live in Ohio, our native species have made it to quite a few places outside our state and have been taking over and pushing out other native species. This particular type is highly invasive.

Zatarans is missing a marketing opportunity. They could be selling tons of seasoning.

You guys aren't eating them This is making me so angry lol

Here where i live a kilo of crayfish is more expensive than shrimps they are delicious !!!! Caldo de chacales

nation wide crayfish boil some kind giant crayfish boil catch them and cook them as often as possible...

To solve the problem, you must unleash the most deadly predator on the planet, MAN!! Start catching and eating these delicious creatures and there will be no problem.

Having lived in the American deep south i developed a great taste for these ......let me at 'em!!😘😘

These things are easy to trap and many people love to eat them. Put some smallmouth bass in those streams and your problem would be gone pretty quick.

The only bit of sense Packham had made in years

It doesn't take an entrepreneur to figure there's a potential market here for selling them to local markets or restraunts if they're so abundant and without limitations to your catch, you'd drop the population considerably where natives could be reintroduced.

how about u do unlimited fishing on them and eat them and sell them. make $$$$

The nanny state is a big problem for this issue. Instead of giving open season to people to harvest them, and eat them, they make people jump through hoops to dispose of an invasive species.

They're a lot in my area but they rejected me licence to trap them for 5th times until I give up... Good luck with trying to get rid of them.

This is intolerable, how dare you call for persecution of the noble signal crayfish. Just because they wipe out natives and change the whole ecosystem, you should be jailed for your intolerance!

Make soup out of them. Problem solved. I volunteer to rescue Britain.

In my neck of the woods across the pond, the Signals are being pushed out by Rusty Crawfish.

I was walking by a small river near Bath a couple of years ago, the path was littered with thousands of these things both dead and dying. I don't know why there were so many out of the water- do they emerge onto land for any reason?

invasive plague? we over here in california looking for these puppies.

Oy vey, don't you understand how diversity is a strength? Signal Crayfish do the jobs that our crayfish don't want to do.

Have you tried having a cajun crawfish festival?

You have a great resource! Free food! They are delicious!

Open a chain of Cajun fast food shops. They are delicious. Or ship them to Cajun country;Louisiana. They will eat them

Our (UK) waterways used to have many predatory bird and fish species, also otters and many other river adapted mammals. If we hadn't killed them all with hunting or habitat destruction, they would have collectively acted as an environmental buffer. Then I don't think the crayfish would have stood much of a chance reaching plague proportions.

Great job great information they seem to be more scarce here I remember as a child seeing blue ones and red ones

Have a few crawfish boils in town and the locals will come in bus loads to catch those mud bugs!

Just eat them with butter

Get yeah some small mouth bass in there. Win win.

Serious? Its food. Its really good food. And it's a prolific breeder. I do not understand people complaining about great tasting, freely available food.

I’ve just seen two large crayfish in a canal in the West Midlands

Thats a lot of cray fish and they're not being eaten what a waste.

This is hilarious, if they have a predator, it could decrease the population. Sadly crayfish is not a diet that a lot of other cultures taken into yet.

Infestation? Hell no! That's damn good eating...

Never ate a crawfish but after reading these comments I feel like I’m missing out

Eat them or sell them to us in Sweden. We eat them in August-september.

Crawfish should say they are Muslim then the government would get them flats in London....

OMG...I'm from. The south... Louisiana... .I'll Lead the charge ..free food for all

I m from South Central Louisiana, Cajun Country. Find some Zatarans crab, crawfish n shrimp boil seasoning, liquid for water n powder for in the chest. Boil water n add ur seasoning n put in butter n corn on cob n whole onions n potatoes, red if u can find them, n boil till cooked n take out n put in small ice chest, preferably styrofoam n season lightly with powder seasoning (u can leave off seasoning if u prefer). If u put any of these into a good ice chest it will warp n hold the seasoning taste. Bring to boil again n add more seasoning with butter n squeeze lemons n throw tgem in (generous amount of butter n lemon). When water reaches a hard boil add the crawfish. Put top of pot on n as soon as u see steam time it for 8 minutes. Take crawfish out n put in styrofoam ice chest n season with powder seasoning. Pot on top n shake to distribute seasoning. Leave in ice chest for 30 minutes to complete cooking. Spread out news paper over trash bags on a table. Once the 30 minutes is up, spread them out on table along with potatoes, corn n onions n enjoy. U can also make a dip using a good mayo with pick-a-pepper sauce or with ur choice of hot sauce. U can dip everything in this dip. Hope this helps with the crawfish problem. U can open up a small drive inn resturant n sell them to others. In Louisiana they sell for anywhere from 5 to 15 dollars a pound. Good luck n Bon Appetit. God Bless!!

Yet you have to have a permit to fish & eat the American crayfish in the UK.

They had this problem in China...now it's a national dish out there...problem solved ;)

Come and get your starlings and we'll come get our crayfish and have a crawfish boil. Or throw some smallmouth bass in there, dads are like crack to them.

I'm listening to all the doom and gloom in the video and I was thinking.."turn these guys into a restaurant delicacy..". and then I read the comments section.. NONE of these people think its a problem.. just an airfare and some Cajun spices away!

Crayfish is the least of Britain 🇬🇧 problems. Some places you can't even go.😂🤦🏻‍♂️

Maybe the UK needs to start catching and eating them......Would probably be a nice addition for commercial fishing.

This species is from the west side of the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the States, and is known as the largest species of crayfish in North America

My family had a crawfish boil yesterday. We here in Louisiana would take care of that problem in one season. For 6 grown ups I boiled 40 pounds.