Myth 1
Myth 1: Why even talk about noble crayfish? They are already extinct.
Myth 2
Myth 2: Signal crayfish grow twice as fast as noble crayfish.
Myth 3
Myth 3: Crayfish walk backwards.
Myth 4
Myth 4: One can not fail stocking signal crayfish.
Myth 5
Myth 5: One doesn’t need a permit to stock crayfish.
Myth 6
Myth 6: The crayfish plague lives on at the bottom of lakes for many years.
Myth 7
Myth 7: Crayfish want it to be cold when they mate. Thus, they do not start until late in the autumn.
Myth 8
Myth 8: Noble crayfish are immune to the crayfish plague.
Myth 9
Myth 9: It’s hopeless to stock noble crayfish.
Myth 10
Myth 10: Signal crayfish or not, noble crayfish are still doomed.
Myth 11
Myth 11: Once a plague, always a plague.
Myth 12
Myth 12: Noble crayfish are stocked, just like signal crayfish.
Myth 13
Myth 13: All research money goes to noble crayfish.
Myth 14
Myth 14: No matter how hard signal crayfish are fished, the catches continue to be good.
Myth 15
Myth 15: Since the signal crayfish comes from a deep and cold lake (Lake Tahoe, CA), they give a good catch, even in Norrland.
Myth 16
Myth 16: The signal crayfish is spreading to new lakes, when fertilized roe gets stuck in bird’s feathers.
Myth 17
Myth 17: A male crayfish can put up his antennas in the air and feel the scent of a mating ready female hundreds of meters away.
Myth 18
Myth 18: Once the signal crayfish has established itself in a lake, it can’t be eradicated.
Myth 19
Myth 19: The stocking of signal crayfish is positive from an national economic perspective.
Myth 20
Myth 20: Overfishing is the greatest threat to the noble crayfish.
Myth 21
Myth 21: What do you mean Sweden only has two species of freshwater crayfish? We actually have three!
