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Crayfish Regulations (PDF)
According to NC General Statue and NCWRC Regulation, it is unlawful to stock any fish (including shellfish and crustaceans) into public waters without a
WRC permit. It is also unlawful to transport, purchase, possess, or sell any live individuals of virile crayfish (Orconectes (Gremicambarus) virilis), rusty crayfish (Orconectes (Procericambarus) rusticus), Australian “red claw” crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) or other species of “giant” crayfish species.
The following illustration is reproduced from:
Cooper, J.E. 2000. A new species of crayfish of the Genus Cambarus, subgenus Cambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae), from the Broad River Basin of North Carolina. The Journal of Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 116(1): 1-12.

FIG. 1 Cambarus (Camparus) lenati, new species (all from holotypic male, form I, except E, F, I, from morphotypic male, form II, and L, from allotypic female): A, lateral aspect of carapace; B, E, lateral aspect of gonopod (first pleopod); C, F, mesial aspect of gonopod; D, dorsal aspect of carapace; G, caudal aspect of in situ gonopods; H, distal aspect of tip of left gonopod; I, caudal aspect of tips of gonopods; J, hook on ischium of third pereiopod; K, epistome; L, annulus ventralis and postannular sclerite; M, antennal scale; N, dorsal aspect of distal podomeres of left cheliped.
Credit NCWRC for all photos.