
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lowery, Roger 
T1  - Should Redclaw Crayfish be introduced to Fiji?
JF  - Pacific Conservation Biology
JO  - Pac. Conserv. Biol.
Y1  - 1995
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
SP  - 312
EP  - 312
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PC960312 
N2  - Whenever a new organism comes on the aquaculture scene there is a rush to try it out and to introduce the species to new locations. Such was the case with Pacifastacus leniusculus in Europe in the early 1980s. In the UK there was at the time no legislation to control such introductions and commercial pressures ensured that the species was soon widely distributed throughout the UK. One consequence was the introduction of the Crayfish Plague Aphanomyces astaci which resulted in the destruction of large populations of the native crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes in several river systems. It was against this background that I came to learn of a proposal to introduce Cherax quadricarinatus to Fiji in 1991. The commercial proposal was put to the Department of Fisheries who were considering accepting it when, on the basis of experience with crayfish in the UK, I proposed that there should be a delay while the species was evaluated for its likely effect on the Fijian fauna. 
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