SHREVEPORT, La. Crawfish season is underway, and prices are falling as time gets further into the season.
It usually starts mid-January until early July. But what trends can we expect this year? Also have you thought of the process farms go through before selling crawfish to you?
Meet the only local crawfish farm in Shreveport
In our own backyard, in Caddo Parish, you will find Caddo Crawfish. The only farm in the area. Owner Smokey James said growing crawfish is more of a science than anything.
Smokey James, owner of Caddo Crawfish tells us about his farm.
âWe own around 200 acres of it. Some years we do good, some years we do bad,â said James.
Louisiana officials: Don t put crawfish boil, shells, down storm drain
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) As crawfish season begins, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is reminding people not to commit crawfish pollution.
Don’t put crawfish shells or water left after boiling crawfish down storm drains, into ditches, or anywhere they could get into bodies of water, the department said in its February newsletter.
“Dumping any seafood waste such as crawfish shells and boil water into a ditch, bayou, river, lake or other waterway can seriously harm or kill any resident aquatic species living there,” the article said.
Louisiana Crawfishermen Say Cold Snap Will Slow Down the Season
First things first, if you raise crawfish in Louisiana, we salute you. That is one of the toughest, wettest, muddiest, jobs there is. And when you consider the season is really at its best when the weather is still kind of chilly which makes working in the wet even harder to endure.
Besides the physical hardships of cultivating crawfish for massive consumption, crawfishermen have to contend with Mother Nature. If she s not happy then the mudbugs won t grow, breed, and get big and delicious.
Local crawfish cultivators tell us the optimum water temperature for the mudbugs to be active, grow, and become the delicacies we crave is about 65 degrees. Beginning later today and for the next several day s temperatures across the region will be much colder than the optimum 65.