December 2011 Volume 33 Issue 3 - 4 ISSN: 1023-8174 (print), 2150-9239 (online) The Official Newsletter of the International Association of Astacology Inside this issue: Cover Story 1 Astacus astacus in the Tudovka River President’s Corner 2 Short Articles 6 (Tver Region, Russia) Adventures in 6 Crowdfunding Euastacus – 7 Make that 50! Investigation of a Chemi- 7 cal Control Strategy for Invasive Crayfish at a Missouri Fish Hatchery Crayfish Conservation 8 Toolkit is launched The market for 8 crayfish in Russia The crayfish breeding 8 in the village of Glush Australian Astacologists 9 Visit Japan Ahead of IAA20 News Items From 11 Figure 1. River Tudovka at Redkino, Tver Region, Russia. Around the World Meeting 12 he Tudovka River (Figure 1) was select- In 2010, at the monitoring point Redkino, Announcements T ed by a joint Russian-Austrian research a single juvenile crayfish (Astacus astacus) Books & Multimedia 13 team as a model river ecosystem for the East was detected in the macrozoobenthos sam- European lowlands (Zhenikhov et al. 2007). It ple. Due to this record, the sampling cam- IAA Related News 15 (1) has a paludified catchment, which is typi- paign in August 2011 utilized hand collections cal for the region, (2) shows little anthropo- in the middle and lower course of the river at Literature of Interest 20 genic impacts, and (3) parts of the catchment three stations (Sibir, Redkino and Molodoi to Astacologists are protected (i.e., the Central Forest State Tud) which seemed suitable for crayfish. No Nature Biosphere reserve in the headwaters crayfish were found at Sibir and Molodoi Tud, and the Molodoitudskii Zakasnik in the lower however, our initial specimen record from reaches). The river has a length of 106 km 2010 was confirmed at Redkino after we cap- and drains a catchment area of 1126 km²; for tured 11 individuals. Morphometric charac- details about the river basin and the six mon- ters (i.e., total length (TL), abdomen length itoring stations, see Schletterer et al. (2011a). (AL), abdomen width (AW), claw length (CL), Discharge data is available for Molodoi Tud and claw width (CW)), of the captured speci- (rkm 20, basin = 926 km²), which is the lower- mens were also recorded, and after this ex- most monitoring station. After three years of amination, the crayfish were released un- observation (1968–1970) a mean annual dis- harmed. Since August 28, 2010 a tempera- charge of 7.1 m³ s-1 was reported (Surin ture logger (HOBO Tidbit V2) has been in op- 1976). eration at the Redkino monitoring station, (Continued on page 3) Crayfish News Volume 33 Issue 3 - 4: Page 1 President’s Corner Dear IAA Members: Pal) on our website. We’ll keep you posted as Well, once again the holiday season is we hear more. upon us. Reflecting back over the past year, This is also a busy time of year due to we had a pretty busy 2011. I would like to membership renewals and other activities thank the other IAA Officers and Executive (elections, bylaw changes, etc.). As a quick Board members for all of their help this past reminder, please be sure to renew your IAA James W. Fetzner Jr., Ph.D. year as we worked to implement the various memberships. Starting this coming year IAA President (USA) projects that were put into motion after the (2012), we will be switching to a yearly mem- future directions meeting held at IAA18. The bership (rather than the 2-year membership transformation of our society journal contin- we had previously). Please visit the IAA web- ues to progress, especially with the recent site (the Membership page) to download the publication of volume 18 (see page 16 herein 2012 membership renewal/application form for a list of topics and titles). In total, this vol- and submit your payment through one of the ume contains 12 papers by 32 different au- IAA offices (USA, France, or Australia). Details thors, with a total of 92 pages. Many of these are on the form. papers resulted directly from presentations As 2012 approaches, we are preparing for given at IAA18 in Columbia, Missouri back in our next international symposium, IAA19, 2010. which will be held in Innsbruck, Austria (see We have also been diligently working on pg. 3). This coming year marks the 40th Anni- the paperwork for the incorporation of our versary of the IAA, which was started back in society in the state of Alabama, and very soon 1972 in Hinterthal, Austria. So in a sense, we we hope to apply for non-profit tax status are returning home... with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). I As always, on behalf of the IAA Officers am proud to say, mainly though the efforts of and Executive Board members, I would like to Antonio Garza de Yta, that we have now take this opportunity to wish you all a very been incorporated as a limited liability corpo- safe and happy holiday season. I hope to see ration (LLC) within the state of Alabama. Now you all in the new year as we celebrate our that this is complete, we can finalize and sub- Association’s 40th year in Innsbruck. See you mit the non-profit 501c3 paperwork to the there. H IRS. This process can take many, many months for final approval, so we just have to wait for Sincerely, the cogs of the government to work their James W. Fetzner Jr. magic. Once we obtain this status, we will be IAA President able to set up credit card payments (via Pay- [email protected] The International Association of Astacology (IAA), founded in Officers: Hintertal, Austria in 1972, is dedicated to the study, conservation, and wise utilization of freshwater crayfish. Any individual or firm James W. Fetzner Jr., President, Section of Invertebrate Zoology, interested in furthering the study of astacology is eligible for Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pitts- membership. Service to members includes a quarterly newsletter burgh, PA 15213-4080. United States of America. (Crayfish News), a membership directory, biennial international E-Mail: [email protected] symposia and publication of the journal Freshwater Crayfish. Leopold Füreder, President-Elect, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria. Secretariat: E-Mail: [email protected] The International Association of Astacology has a permanent secretariat managed by Antonio Garza de Yta. Address: IAA Susan B. Adams, Secretary, 26 County Road 223, Oxford, MS, Secretariat, Room 203, Swingle Hall, Department of Fisheries and 38655, United States of America. Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University, AL 36849-5419, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +1(334) 844-4786 / Fax: +1(334) 844-9208 James M. Furse, Immediate Past President, Griffith School of E-mail: [email protected] Environment, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Queensland Web page: http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/IAA/ 4222, Australia. Webmaster: James W. Fetzner Jr. E-Mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Statements and opinions expressed in Crayfish News are not necessarily those of the International Association of IAA Board Members: Astacology. In addition to the IAA Officers and Past President, the board includes Jason Coughran (Australia), Arnie Eversole (USA), Tadashi Kawai (Japan), Steph Parkyn (Australia), Stephanie Peay This issue edited by James W. Fetzner Jr. (UK), Alastair Richardson (Tasmania) and Chris Taylor (USA). and Abby Stancliffe-Vaughan Crayfish News Volume 33 Issue 3 - 4: Page 2 (Continued from page 1) with its initial data extracted at the beginning of August 2011. Redkino (WGS84 coordinates: lat 56.381102, long 33.294292) is located on the lower stretch of the Tudovka River at rkm 51 (i.e., 51 km from the source of the river), the elevation is about 207 m, and the basin area at the site is 575 km². During the low flow period in the summer, channel width varies between 25 and 30 m and the depth is from 0.5 to 1.5 m. The station is within the boundaries of the Molodoi- tudskii Zakasnik, a protected area of about 80 km² between Redkino and Molodoi Tud, which was formed in 1992 and meets IUCN criteria III (Natural Monument) and IV (Habitat/ Species Management Area). The sediment is dominated by mud along the banks, while the streambed primarily consists of sand and stones. The solid substrate is covered by water moss (Fontinalis antipyretica) and algae (Clodophora glomer- ata), and along the banks Elodea canadiensis and Spargani- um emersum, in combination with large woody debris, form highly structured habitats (Figure 2). The IAA19 symposium will be held in Innsbruck, Austria. In The average temperature between 28th August 2010 and Austria, 40 years ago, the first symposium was held 1972 in 7th August 2011 was 6.42°C (Figure 3). Average monthly tem- Hinterthal, where also the IAA was founded. So let us take the th peratures, as well as minimum and maximum (in °C), for the opportunity to celebrate the 40 anniversary of the IAA! eleven months within the observation period were: Septem- The IAA19 symposium will take place in the historic center ber (10.43; 5.49–13.57), October (3.91; 1.40–7.38), Novem- of Innsbruck, which is the capital city of the federal state of ber (3.40; -0.01–5.58), December (0.03; -0.01–1.15), January Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn Valley at the (0.09; -0.01–0.04), February (0.01; -0.01–0.04), March (0.05; - junction with the Wipptal (Sill River), which provides access to 0.06–0.62), April (2.46; 0.04–9.34), May (11.46; 5.72–18.13), the Brenner Pass, some 30 km (18.64 mi) south of Innsbruck.