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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Understanding the effects of egg loss from fisher handling to improve conservation of a threatened freshwater crayfish (Euastacus armatus)

S. M. C. Raymond https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9454-5030 A * , C. R. Todd https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0550-0349 A and J. Ryall A
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A Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Action, Heidelberg, Vic., Australia.

* Correspondence to: scott.raymond@delwp.vic.gov.au

Handling Editor: Richard Marchant

Marine and Freshwater Research 75, MF23180 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF23180
Submitted: 1 December 2023  Accepted: 26 March 2024  Published: 7 May 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

Context

Handling of wild animals can have adverse effects on individuals that scale up to affect populations and ultimately species. Limited mobility and high harvest pressure expose the threatened Australian freshwater crayfish (Euastacus armatus) to multiple handling events by fishers that cause egg loss.

Aim

Our aim was to assess the effects from harvest pressure on the reproductive output of an E. armatus population.

Methods

A stochastic model based on empirical data and estimated harvest pressures was used to predict the effect of repetitive handling of individuals on a population of E. armatus subject to harvest and consequent egg loss.

Key results

Egg loss resulted in substantial predicted population-level declines, most pronounced in populations subject to high and extreme harvest pressures.

Conclusions

We advocate educating fishers to visually determine the reproductive condition of female crayfish by inspecting gonopore setation, eliminating the need for unfurling the tail.

Implications

Maximising species reproductive output through limiting handling loss supports the management and conservation of E. armatus populations.

Keywords: extinction, fecundity, fishery harvest pressure, harvest regulations, Murray crayfish, Murray River, over-exploitation, reproductive output, stochastic population model.

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