BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — One week after crawfish prices hit the lowest levels of the season, they continue that downward trend heading into the first weekend of April. An improvement in ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Boiled crawfish lie on display at Kjean's Safood in New Orleans, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Amid a crawfish shortage in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Louisiana crawfish expert says all the signs point to a normal season. LSU AgCenter Crawfish Extension Agent Todd Fontenot said a normal production can be ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration Wednesday for the state’s critical crawfish industry, as extreme weather disrupted this year’s harvest and triggered a shortage of the tiny ...

During Lent, when visiting the Louisiana town of Lafayette (which might as well be the most Catholic city in America, by the way), you'll probably get two suggestions from locals on what to do for ...

Farmers in Louisiana are going toe-to-toe with a nasty enemy: large apple snails that clog crawfish traps while laying thousands of eggs every month.

A food vendor at the Louisiana Crawfish Festival failed to disclose that their crawfish was from China, breaking a state law. Organizers are checking all vendors at the festival and requiring signage ...

CROWLEY, La. (AP) — Spring is peak season in Louisiana for crawfish, the hard-shelled star of outdoor parties. But a shortage of foreign workers is dampening the mood. US futures mostly higher as the ...

BATON ROUGE, La.BATON ROUGE, La. — Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, the nation’s top producer of the crustaceans that are a staple in Gulf Coast seafood boils, Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In Jeff Pohlmann’s 39 years of selling crawfish in Louisiana he has never seen the industry face such an abysmal shortage of “mudbugs.” Driven by last summer’s drought, extreme ...

Louisiana's Crawfish Industry Feels the Pinch of Limits on Foreign Workers CROWLEY, La. (AP) — Spring is peak season in Louisiana for crawfish, the hard-shelled star of outdoor parties. But a shortage ...