Weather Chills Louisiana Crawfish Harvest

LAFAYETTECrawfish are kind of like you and me: They don’t like to go out in the cold weather, either.

That means fewer crawfish are available right now and those that are available cost a little more.
“It’s very bad right now,” said Glynn Breaux, owner of Penny Saver seafood market on Moss Street. “This cold weather, they all go back down.”

Temperatures at or below freezing during the past week caused crawfish to bury themselves in the mud at the bottom of Acadiana’s crawfish ponds where they’ll wait out the cold snap, said Mark Shirley with the LSU AgCenter.

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