The red swamp and white river crayfish are both raised for human food. Neither usually make deep burrows above water unless the pond is drying up which is mentioned a couple times in the link. White River one can get slightly larger than the Red swamp. So if you are interested in using a crayfish for food consider the red swamp or white river. Both get large and it would take a pretty big bass to eat the full grown adults. The following informative link provides more info than most of us would ever want about these two species. Note the info in the section about Burrow Ecology .
https://srac.tamu.edu/index.cfm/event/getFactSheet/whichfactsheet/195/
Last edited by Bill Cody; 12/20/13 10:18 PM.
