Freshwater crayfish, or yabbies as they are called in Australia, serve as bait for fishermen. Yabbies are also delectable to stingrays, which smash the burrowed tunnels the yabbies live in, and also ...

A fourth-generation farmer says orders for yabbies are going gangbusters again this festive period as people look for affordable seafood alternatives for Christmas lunch. As demand for the shellfish ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The yabbie is the best known of Australia's native freshwater crayfish species and many a farm kid has ...

Travel often brings the unexpected. But I was unprepared to find some of the best food I've ever eaten in Australia. On a recent trip, we stopped at a café for lunch. An Australian woman we had seen ...

A staple food for our iconic platypus, the humble yabby is far more important than we give it credit for. And although the humble yabby is not as cute and cuddly as some better-known Australian icons, ...

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