UK Crayfish Website

WELCOME to the UK Crayfish website!

Providing a range of information on crayfish species in the UK. There are two different sections to this website for different users, see below for more information on these sections.

White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) © Mike Drew/Anglian Water

Crayfish for everyone website

Click on the above link for the 'crayfish for everyone' website. This website gives lots of information about the UK’s only native crayfish, the rare and fascinating White-clawed crayfish (White-claws). It also contains lots of facts and figures about White-claws their decline, conservation and how you can give them a helping hand, also giving information and advice about introduced crayfish.

Crayfish for professionals website

Click on the above link to enter the 'crayfish for professionals' area of this website, this is for people working on practical crayfish conservation and research giving access to technical documents on a range topics from surveying to legislation. These pages also provide information on crayfish projects currently occurring across the UK.