The old menace is back: Recent crayfish plague outbreaks in the Czech Republic

Abstract

The crayfish plague pathogen Aphanomyces astaci has cause at least five mass mortalities of native crayfishin the Czech Republic between 2004 and 2007.

Keywords

• Aphanomyces astaci
• oomycete
• Orconectes limosus
• Astacus astacus
• Austropotamobius torrentium
• mass mortalities
• freshwater crayfish
• American crayfish