{"id":414607,"date":"2026-02-08T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414607\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:01:07","slug":"northumberland-crayfish-survive-100-death-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414607\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland crayfish survive 100-death incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The symptoms do not appear to be fatal to the entire population and it appears some, particularly younger crayfish, can recover via the normal moulting process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been no further reports of native crayfish deaths in any North East catchment since autumn 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Healthy crayfish were rescued from the River Wansbeck after the incident by the EA, the NT and Northumberland Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Females carrying eggs were kept in tanks at the zoo where there were facilities to rear the young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The offspring will be released into &#8220;ark&#8221; sites, bodies of water that are isolated from the risks commonly affecting white-clawed crayfish, later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The symptoms do not appear to be fatal to the entire population and it appears some, particularly younger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-414607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}