Whatever happened with the hybrid shrimp / crawfish?

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Way down South, where football and food are close to religions, tailgate parties could turn into crawfish boils a few autumns from now if a Louisiana State University project works out.
“I certainly hope so. It would be a nice option to have,” said Greg Lutz, an aquaculture specialist at the university’s agriculture center.

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Shrimp crawfish, however, lay their eggs about the time the current commercial varieties are harvested and would be full-sized in October and November.

“I would like them so we could get part of the football season,” said David Snell, who runs a Dallas-area catering business called Cajun Crawfish Company. “All the tailgating that goes on, if we were able to get crawfish earlier, with a good size and at a reasonable price, I’d be interested.”

The small-headed, small-clawed shrimp crawfish have another advantage over the other species. Although they’re not quite as big - growing to about 5 inches - their proportionally smaller heads and claws mean more of their weight is meat.

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