They stopped moving, stopped talking, stopped raising their arms to claw Max to death, stopped salivating.

NEWYORKER: Max at Sea

"In an hour, a half hour - just ten minutes - the crayfish can claw my fish to death, " says Salah Zayed a 56-year old fisherman who says he's been tossing his nets into the Nile since he was a child.

CNN: Egypt's crayfish invasion