re: Boiling Crawfish-- Straight Tails and Purging

Trout Bandit and Nawlens Bandit, the WWL link quoted:

“Ray McClain, LSU AgCenter crawfish researcher at the Rice Research Station near Crowley says the straight tailed mudbugs were actually more likely to be alive before going into the boiling pot.”


"Research at the LSU AgCenter has shown that the addition of salt to the wash water provides no significant advantage in cleansing crawfish despite the numerous claims to the contrary," McClain insisted.”

Did Germany actually prove and publish this first? Seems to me that this would have been researched long ago.