The red and blue claws poking out of green, mesh sacks definitely get your attention. There are thousands of them, pinching the air and grabbing anything that comes near.
They’re the business end of freshly caught crawfish headed to market. Pound after pound of these Louisiana mudbugs are bagged each season as the taste for them gains new consumers.
Crawfish are big business and getting even bigger. In fact, “the combined annual yield ranges from 120 million to 150 million pounds,” according to the Louisiana Crawfish Promotion and Research Board.
The board, created by the state legislature in 1983 to safeguard and expand the industry, estimates the “total economic contribution to the Louisiana economy exceeds $300 million annually” – with 7,000+ people “depending directly or indirectly on the crawfish industry.”
To read the rest of the story, please go to: Louisiana Seafood News
