RE: Latest Delicacy: Nuclear-Boosted Crayfish

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

Not all that new - 

A variant of this was researched about fifteen or so years ago, using north
Atlantic lobsters.  The warm water brought them to market size in a
similarly compressed time, but the killer was that lobsters are
cannibalistic, given the chance.  Since they had to be hatched in the warm
water to make it work, and each one that shed its shell was set on and
eaten, mortality was effectively 100% unless they were segregated one to an
enclosure.   It wouldn't surprise me to find the same problem with crayfish.

Since this is way off topic, if you want to discuss, dissent, or dissemble,
use my home E-mail. <mailto:maclir@if.rmci.net>

Dave Neil
B.A. Zoology (Marine Bio.) University of S. Florida

On Wednesday, July 21, 1999 9:49 AM, Mercado, Don
[SMTP:don.mercado@lmco.com] wrote:

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