Parks Canada officials are looking into how a northern crayfish, listed as an invasive species in Alberta, found its way into Banff National Park.
The invertebrate, which looks like a miniature lobster, does live in ponds and creeks in other areas of the province, but officials were surprised when they were told they could be in the icy waters of Bow Lake.
"We captured a crayfish in one of the minnow traps we had set," said Parks Canada biologist Megan Goudie. As for how the critter got there, it likely got some help from one of the thousands of visitors to the park every year. , which allows people to harvest crayfish anywhere, other than Beaver River, without a licence by legal means. Those include angling, dip net, seine net, minnow trap and capture by hand.
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