Shell of a crayfish

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Here in the Central San Joaquin Valley of CA we are a farming community and we have irrigation canals. The water flows in the canals from April till September so the farmers can water their crops. On the land my husband's family owns and the fields around there's the crop that is grown is rice. The soil is clay and holds in the water so it makes it prime rice land. This is a photo of a crayfish or crawdad which is what we call them. They are eatable and a lot of people fish for them and eat them. The photo is the skeleton of one that was trying to craw out of the dry dirt and died there. I take my dogs of a walk at the family's ranch almost every weekend and I walked upon this one. It looks pretty creepy like it was trying to reach for help. To fish for a crayfish/crawdad you can just use a sting of a stick with a piece of chicken on it and the crayfish snatch on and you pull them out or you can get the traps like crab traps and bate them. I have fished for crayfish and have used the stick and chicken neck to catch them. I have not eaten them because I am afraid the water is to polluted who knows what type of chemicals are in that water.