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I've caught many in the London area, including a huge one in the Serpentine that I took home and cooked. Apparently nightswimmers in the Serpentine have to be careful not to tread on them, as they come up onto the tarmac shore on warm summer nights. And I've heard tell that there's a chap who runs a cafe on the Edgware Road who traps them and serves them up to his customers. The New River up near Hoddesdon/Broxbourne has loads and the water is so clear and shallow that you can see them wandering around on the river bed. And the chub and perch in some of the rivers around Bedfordshire are getting very fat by eating lots of these crayfish.