A number of factors could be responsible for one of the worst crop of crabs in Pontchartrain Basin and Lake Maurepas, including colder surface and water temperatures.
Gary Bauer, owner of Slidell crabmeat processing company Pontchartrain Blue Crab, reported that this is the slowest he has ever in all the years he’s been in the business.
Bauer is a member of the Louisiana Crab Task Force, and its former chairman, said the lack of crabs is not contained to any one area, but across the entire Lake Pontchartrain Basin.
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