This time last year, Langenstein's grocery in Old Metairie was selling between 40 and 80 pounds of live crawfish a day.
"We'd get four deliveries a week, around 160 pounds at a time," store manager John Gilbert said. "Crawfish is always a big seller during Carnival."
But the unusually cold winter months have pummeled the Louisiana crawfish market, leading many to declare this the worst crawfish season in recent memory.
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