Crawfish Shortage in National News

Crawfish Farmers ain’t playing anymore

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Crawfish Farmers ain’t playing anymore

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Fried shrimp is better anyway.

Sean graduated with my brother. His crawfish farm is right down the road from Suires grocery in Cow Island. Great people

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I'm not a crawfish farmer, but I've always wondered if restaurants trying to serve boiled crawfish seemingly earlier and earlier every year isn't part of the problem. You have places starting to advertise the stuff in mid-January for fricks sake.

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That where the issue seems to be. Naturally crawfish start reaching maturity March-April, but crawfish/rice farmers will flood the fields in October/November to have an earlier artificial season. But with the drought and colder weather it was harder for the crawfish to become viable.

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All this fishing in jan and Feb is what makes this worse than it is

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Not true - you and your buddy are dumbasses

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crawfish/rice farmers will flood the fields in October/November to have an earlier artificial season

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You do realize that this helps the natural life cycle of crawfish
Only about 5% of ponds are fished in Nov and it’s mostly continuous grass ponds way down south
Only about 15% are fished in Dec

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fricking gross. Might as well boil some cockroaches.

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We are boiling the cockroaches of the water bottom.

The greenies ought to love that we are eating bugs instead of red meat.

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but I've always wondered if restaurants trying to serve boiled crawfish seemingly earlier and earlier every year isn't part of the problem.

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They are responding to what customers are asking for. That, and Texas people having discovered crawfish, is messing with demand.

Crawfish Board

I love crawfish but shrimp is versatile and in running for greatest food.in the History of Western Civilization.

Both crawfish and shrimp together makes you feel like royalty.