Description
Whisk that someone special off to the wild West Coast for a whirl on the dance floor to celebrate the start of ‘Red Gold’ season. The very popular annual Crayfish Dance is on the 21st of November 2009 – normally one week after the opening of the Crayfish season. Work up an appetite as you
langarm with your
bokkie and then feast on braaied crayfish and snoek, salads,
soet patat and homemade curried, pickled mussels.
Need to know? Venue: Paternoster Hotel This year the cost of the dinner and dance is R 150.00 pp. Bookings: Elmaré Carosini 022 7522703/773
Funky Kreef Facts
Crayfish who have the fancy Latin name of Jasus Lalandii can reach an age of 40 years.
Until 1953, our local kreef was known as Crawfish or Spiny Lobster – until Parliament amended the Crawfish Act of 1940 by the substitution for the name.
At 7 years of age, a female crayfish produces about 200’000 eggs of which only 1% reach maturity.
Female crayfish may take up to 20 years to reach a catch-able size.
In the previous centuries, fishermen regarded crayfish as a pest and would toss them overboard when caught in their nets.
Wagon loads of dead crayfish used to be collected and sold to farmers as fertilizer!
Crayfish Dance 2009
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