On 2017-11-10, cshenk > wrote:

> I've lived a few places where crawfish/crawdads were common. Here isnt
> one of them and where you are probably isnt either.

Yep. Not a lotta crawdads at this elevation.

What was really strange, was when I still lived in CA. The CA Delta
has millions of crawdads, but they're all saturated with mercury from
the CA Goldrush era. Hence, we seldom eat 'em.

One of the biggest crawdad festivals, on the West Coast, is out on the
CA Delta in the small town of Isleton:

http://www.isletoncoc.org/crawdad.html

Those crawdads are all "imported" from Louisiana. We can even
occassionally get crawdad and conch meat, here, on sale at our local
beef butcher at a decent price. (the beef prices, here, are
absurd)

nb