PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. – This year’s crawfish season might stretch just a little bit longer thanks to an unexpected find — crawfish by the thousands being harvested on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish.
Foster Creppel, a coastal activist, steered his boat through the closest thing you might find to white water in South Louisiana’s Mardi Gras Pass.
“The current’s moving pretty fast out here,” he said.
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Crawfish have been available for a couple of weeks now, but demand has been low because the early crawfish were really small, and the prices were really high. In fact, a pound of those small crawfish could set you back up to $10 a pound. …
Results from a survey of crawfish producers show that decreased demand for their product is resulting in lost income of about $ 500 an acre and a season that could end about 40 days sooner than usual in some cases. …
Harvesting crawfish is technically legal year round, but anyone who has spent time on the Gulf Coast knows that Southeast Texans are usually popping tails from late winter to the end of spring. …
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