re: Crawfish crop this year?

It's changed over the years. The past 20 years the crawfishing industry has changed completely. My parents move my family to Pierre Part in '87 because my father was a commercial fisherman. He was making a killing. A few years later the government started wanting their cut and the buyers wanted larger profits; killed the "little man". The year they quit buying graded crawfish my dad quit fishing, best decision he ever made...

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I used to work at a seafood market during high school (10 years ago) and it was bull shite. The fishermen would tell the owner they could have truck loads of crawfish and would talk to the owner about farming as little as possible to keep demand high and prices up. It's a win win for the fishermen and the stores that sell em to keep the amount of sacks minimal. I always head to Pierre Part to get them from the fishermen direct and avoid the mark up from the stores. I have never had a problem getting crawfish from around the spillway.

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lol. So when prices are good you think it benefits the farmer to sell less sacks?

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Edit: after Easter is when they would flood the market, I was told by that point, the fishermen and store owners have already made obscene profits. Not complaining about people turning a profit, for the record. This is still America, for now.

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That would be wrong. After Easter the demand drops DRASTICALLY; therefore the market gets flooded.

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The fishermen usually get the shaft because they sell for pretty cheap, compared to the mark up once the stores turn them around. I always try to support the fishermen and they usually sell them to me for more than what the stores buy them for, but it is easier for them to unload the sacks wholesale than trying to find odd ball buyers near the farms.

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Close but actually the retailers just adjust and always make their same profit margin, pretty much.