Crawfish sack colors...are they standardized?

They mean nothing. We choose to separate landowners by color but that’s literally it.

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They might mean something to the fisherman but nothing uniform to the industry.

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This.

Nothing. The color of the sack wherever you are buying them is the one you use. My dad always used purple. Last time I was home he had green. I asked and he said that’s the color they had that day.

That’s possible but there’s no standard. 20 years ago no one used purple sacks hardly (at our buyer). Now purple is like 80% of what goes to our wholesaler. No rhyme or reason. Whatever the seed store has in stock. On that note, haven’t seen the yellows in forever...

As stated by others, generally not. But some processors/wholesalers that mechanically grade at the plant, will use different colored sacks to differentiate graded sizes after crawfish pass through the grader and are re-sacked, but there is no uniform standard. Some larger crawfish farming operations with numerous ponds/fields might do the same when crawfish from harvested fields differ significantly in size - for example “peelers”, “field run”, “select”.

One farmer had some crawfish stolen from him. He told the Sheriffs office he was the only one in the area with yellow sacks. Sure enough they caught two guys on the side of the road trying to sale crawfish in yellow sacks. The color gave them away.

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trying to sale

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imbecile.