Hundreds of crabs wiped out by drought

The death of some 500 crabs in a stream near the town of Litomyšl last week has been ascribed to the severe drought. Suspicions that this may have been caused by fisheries not respecting the minimum stream flow from nearby lakes to protect their own fish have not been confirmed. Another 1,000 crabs from the stream were saved by locals who collected them from the muddy basin and moved them in buckets to a water-filled quarry where they could survive.