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re: 3 Million pounds of crawfish a year
Posted on 7/25/21 at 11:02 am to tgrbaitn08
Posted on 7/25/21 at 11:02 am to tgrbaitn08
So much wrong in your post. Great video.
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Posted on 7/25/21 at 11:07 am to dwr353
quote:
So much wrong in your post.
what am I wrong about?
Posted on 7/25/21 at 11:36 am to tgrbaitn08
Different equipment for different habitats. The cages hung on a string from trees in a flooded swamp would not work in a field setting. Also it is the "Basin", not the "Spillway", unless you are Les Americain from the east side! 
Posted on 7/25/21 at 11:46 am to dwr353
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Also it is the "Basin", not the "Spillway"
The Basin and the Spillway are 2 different areas dumb frick
Posted on 7/25/21 at 11:53 am to tgrbaitn08
Are you referring to the Atchafalaya? I never insulted you. Shows your character.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 11:58 am to dwr353
you realize there is the Basin, The Spillway and The Wax. All three produce more crawfish than the ponds do and produce crawfish much later after the ponds shut down and dry up
eta: im sorry I called you a dumb frick
eta: im sorry I called you a dumb frick
This post was edited on 7/25/21 at 11:59 am
Posted on 7/25/21 at 12:10 pm to tgrbaitn08
Actually yes to most. Fished the Basin since the 50's, The Wax since the 70's. Not sure what you call the
Spillway since there are many in La. Profanity is not a good look by the way.
Spillway since there are many in La. Profanity is not a good look by the way.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 12:12 pm to dwr353
quote:
Not sure what you call the
Spillway
The Morganza Spillway that feeds into the Atchafalay Basin and Wax
This post was edited on 7/25/21 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 7/25/21 at 12:20 pm to tgrbaitn08
Got you. As I worked for the Corps between semesters in 1974, I know all those areas well. Just considered all as extensions of each other.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 12:23 pm to dwr353
All good brother. I grew up in those 3 areas and still spend a lot of days down there. I have a camp right off the Atchafalaya River so I’m down there a lot. Know the area like the back of my hand.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 12:43 pm to tgrbaitn08
quote:
eta: im sorry I called you a dumb frick
Can we all get along? I liked the custom boat. Can they raise crawfish in Arkansas?
Posted on 7/25/21 at 12:48 pm to tgrbaitn08
Wrong again my friend!! This is from the dept of wildlife and fisheries.
Louisiana fishermen have been harvesting crawfish commercially since at least the late 1800s. In the late 1940s, rice farmers developed a method to farm crawfish. Farm-raised and wild-caught crawfish crops generally complement each other—farm-raised crawfish are available late fall through mid-spring, and, if conditions are favorable, wild-caught crawfish dominate the market from mid-spring to early summer. The rivers, bayous, swamps, and lakes of the Atchafalaya and Vermilion-Teche basins are significant sources of wild crawfish, but the vast majority of the state’s crawfish production is farm-raised in thousands of acres of crawfish ponds. With more than 1,000 crawfish fishermen and more than 1,300 crawfish farmers, Louisiana leads the nation in crawfish production, supplying 100 to 120 million pounds per year. Louisiana’s crawfish industry contributes more than $300 million to the state’s economy annually.
Louisiana fishermen have been harvesting crawfish commercially since at least the late 1800s. In the late 1940s, rice farmers developed a method to farm crawfish. Farm-raised and wild-caught crawfish crops generally complement each other—farm-raised crawfish are available late fall through mid-spring, and, if conditions are favorable, wild-caught crawfish dominate the market from mid-spring to early summer. The rivers, bayous, swamps, and lakes of the Atchafalaya and Vermilion-Teche basins are significant sources of wild crawfish, but the vast majority of the state’s crawfish production is farm-raised in thousands of acres of crawfish ponds. With more than 1,000 crawfish fishermen and more than 1,300 crawfish farmers, Louisiana leads the nation in crawfish production, supplying 100 to 120 million pounds per year. Louisiana’s crawfish industry contributes more than $300 million to the state’s economy annually.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 12:57 pm to shoestring
like I said....
not anymore.....they would rather and make more money raising cane or growing rice......those are old stats..it used to be that way but not anymore. Farmers make more money raising cane and/or selling pit blinds to duck hunters than they do farming crawfish
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farm-raised crawfish are available late fall through mid-spring, and, if conditions are favorable, wild-caught crawfish dominate the market from mid-spring to early summer.
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the vast majority of the state’s crawfish production is farm-raised in thousands of acres of crawfish ponds.
not anymore.....they would rather and make more money raising cane or growing rice......those are old stats..it used to be that way but not anymore. Farmers make more money raising cane and/or selling pit blinds to duck hunters than they do farming crawfish
This post was edited on 7/25/21 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 7/25/21 at 12:57 pm to shoestring
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Supply and demand creates the price of crawfish
So there’s magically more crawfish after Good Friday when the price typically drops sometime by half.
Just an observation.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 1:05 pm to tgrbaitn08
The article is current Not outdated, I have no idea of your location but in central and southwest louisiana crawfish farming has exploded!!! I highly doubt these farmers are reporting 100 percent of the catch daily either.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 1:08 pm to shoestring
you quite could be possibly right...however we duck hunt in Gueydan and the guys around there tell us that a lot of the farmers have quit crawfishing and started growing cane instead.....more profitable....it's starting to spread throughout that entire area
Posted on 7/25/21 at 1:11 pm to tgrbaitn08
No better feeling than an early morning duck hunt in Gueydan. Hope you are teal hunting shortly!!
Posted on 7/25/21 at 1:21 pm to roguetiger15
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reefer trailer
Posted on 7/25/21 at 1:33 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:I love it when Baton Rouge and New Orleans city bros call southern I10 baws Yankees.
Good video until that baw sprinkled the seasoning on the outside of the crawfish after boiling them.
fricking Yankees.
This post was edited on 7/25/21 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 7/25/21 at 1:45 pm to kywildcatfanone
They should have parked a wood chipper next to the pond and fed that soy boy doing the story to the crawfish head first.
Otherwise good video.
Otherwise good video.
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