About the ICC

Photographer: MN Sea Grant
The Invasive Crayfish Collaborative (ICC) brings industry, science, and land management stakeholders together to improve the management of invasive crayfish in the Great Lakes Region. It is convened and facilitated by Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant and the Illinois Natural History Survey with funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

What’s New

Getting rid of ‘rain’ and ‘stars’: Mitigating inhibition effects on ddPCR data analysis, the case study of the invasive crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus in the streams of Luxembourg

Porco, D., Hermant, S., Purnomo, C. A., Horn, M., Marson, G., & Colling, G. (2022). Getting rid of ‘rain’ and ‘stars’: Mitigating inhibition effects on ddPCR data analysis, the case study of the invasive crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus in the streams of Luxembourg. PLoS ONE, 17(11 11) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275363

The current status of Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852) and their effect on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in Hungarian watercourses

Ludányi, M., Peeters, E. T. H. M., Kiss, B., Gáspár, Á., Roessink, I., Magura, T., & Müller, Z. (2022). The current status of Pacifastacus leniusculus (dana, 1852) and their effect on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in Hungarian watercourses. Aquatic Invasions, 17(4), 543-559. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2022.17.4.05

Oregon’s sole native crayfish faces new invasive threat

Northern crayfish, which are native to the Midwest, were discovered for the first time in Oregon in May 2022.