What Are the Prospects for Crayfish Farming? One Article Tells You Whether It Is Worth Raising

The crayfish, scientifically known as Procambarus clarkii, also called the red swamp crayfish, has strong adaptability to the environment, suffers few diseases, and tolerates low oxygen. It can grow and reproduce in ponds, ditches, lakes, rice paddies, swamps and other water bodies, and it can survive out of water or live in burrows for relatively long periods. Its tolerance for poor conditions is very strong, it is convenient to transport, and its survival rate during transport is high. This is something other shrimp species cannot match.

Crayfish seedlings are easy to breed, and it can reproduce and be raised on its own without complex equipment. The techniques are simple, feed is easy to obtain, and it is suitable for artificial farming. In general, intensive pond culture yields 400 kg per mu, with profits of more than 1600 yuan.

At present, the amount of artificially farmed crayfish is small, and the market mainly relies on wild catches, whose natural resources fall far short of meeting consumer demand in both domestic and international markets.