Crayfish feed on native insects, frogs and small fish. Highland Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Lochaber Fisheries Trust were involved in the eradication project at Ballachulish.

A breed of crayfish, blamed for feeding on native frogs and fish, are to be eradicated from ponds in a Lochaber quarry.

A Highland Council ranger made the find at a quarry. The crayfish have been blamed for feasting on native insects, frogs and small fish in the River Clyde and in lochs in Dumfries and Galloway.

Increasingly, the clatter of the camans is giving way to the rattle of knives and forks in the Laroch, which has only been re-opened for a few weeks but is already hoaching. Our request for a ...