Some seafood restaurants and markets in the area are beginning to have trouble meeting crawfish demands for customers due to the shorter supply in recent weeks.

At Rouses Supermarket on Carrollton Avenue, Alex Mabile was busy boiling coolers full of crawfish, while inside, live crawfish were selling for $3.19 per pound. Boiled crawfish were going for $4. ...

Chitin acts as a watertight barrier against dehydration, preventing excessive water loss from the body. •Insects undergo molting, a process by which they shed their exoskeleton to grow. Chitin, a ...

Mark Shirley, LSU AgCenter crawfish specialist, recently revisited LSU research conducted over a decade ago on the question: “Should you wash your crawfish in saltwater before boiling?” The answer ...

As a result, crawfish remained in their burrows, unable to feed or molt, which ultimately led to the creatures’ deaths. Due to the poor harvest in 2024, Governor Jeff Landry declared a state of ...

SHREVEPORT, LA - I must admit I haven't tried any crawfish yet this season, but I am hearing from several friends that this is going to be a great spring for mudbug lovers. If you are planning to ...

Today we learned that crawfishing is a big deal in parts of...Idaho. As far as we know they don't farm crawfish in Idaho, it's more of outdoors fishing activity. According the Facebook group ...

A new critter is creeping into the United States' waters. The invasive Australian redclaw crayfish has been spotted in southern Texas, roughly 8,000 miles from its home. The freshwater ...

A spill of diesel into a river could affect endangered native crayfish, a wildlife trust has warned. Residents of Kendal, Cumbria, first spotted the oily substance floating atop the River Kent ...