Crawdads

[George Scherman]

Just finished an excellent meal of Montana Crawdads hand caught in McGregor Lake. Upon disection my wife, the biologist found what looked like calcium accretions with annualar growth rings. What are these? Otoliths?

 

[Rick Murchison]

Just finished an excellent meal of Montana Crawdads hand caught in McGregor Lake. Upon disection my wife, the biologist found what looked like calcium accretions with annualar growth rings. What are these? Otoliths?

Could be... Where in the crawdad?
Rick

 

[George Scherman]

In the part of the body that I would describe as the head.

 

[mxracer19]

How should I know?...shes the biologist!


-Matt

 

[Rick Murchison]

In the part of the body that I would describe as the head.

Could well be otoliths. Crawdad otoliths grow fast and deposit rings frequently - an excellent aging indicator.
Rick

 

[George Scherman]

Thanks Rick. mxracer, she's normaly dealing with grizzly bears, not crustaceans.

 

[Chaseh]

Mountain crawdads? Are they similar to mountain oysters?

 

[George Scherman]

Mountain crawdads? Are they similar to mountain oysters?

The claws of the crawdads would make for some very unhappy oysters.

 

[Chaseh]

The claws of the crawdads would make for some very unhappy oysters.

gold bond can take care of that.