Murray crayfish will be reintroduced in SA's River Murray for the first time in 40 years after a permit was granted to local ecologists.

Murray crayfish once thrived in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. The species was found everywhere from the headwaters of the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers in the Australian Alps all the way ...

Once abundant in the River Murray, freshwater crayfish are now non-existent in South Australia, but an aquatic ecologist hopes to change that.

Murray crayfish never fail to impress. When you pull up the hoop nets from the murky depths and those large white claws start waving about, the uninitiated invariably recoil, sometimes even ...

Fisheries NSW have recently announced large changes to the rules about fishing for Murray crayfish after calling for the status of this species to be changed. The Murray crayfish is now considered ...

The Murray crayfish, the world’s second largest, is sensitive to changes in habitat. But populations can come back from current declines.

The Murray crayfish disappeared from large parts of its range over the past 40 years. Now a community-driven reintroduction program is bringing the iconic species back.

A decade of research and planning to bring back an iconic River Murray species from “virtual extinction” in South Australia will hit a major milestone today, with Murray crayfish set to be ...

Crayfish are a funny little animal, more lobster than fish. They are freshwater relatives of the marine lobsters, and like lobsters, Crayfish have a hard outer shell and big front crablike claws ...

Ecologists have found that Australian river crayfish numbers plunged 90 per cent in an alpine region after their habitat was lost. Although alpine streams can be hotspots for the Murray Crayfish ...