At a New Orleans seafood market, they follow Louisiana crawfish from washing and sorting to the massive boil. A batch of 150 ...

Juan Antonio harvests crawfish traps in a crawfish pond in Crowley, La., Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) CROWLEY, La. (AP) — Spring is peak season in Louisiana ...

For the 10th year in a row, a crawfish has been pardoned, kicking off crawfish season in Louisiana. Tony the Crawfish officially was pardoned Feb. 24 by Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, along with the ...

If you're enjoying a classic crawfish boil, you need to know how to eat the crawfish correctly, and that includes taking full ...

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In Jeff Pohlmann’s 39 years of selling crawfish in Louisiana he has never seen the industry face such an abysmal shortage of “mudbugs.” Driven by last summer’s drought, extreme ...

Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, the nation’s top producer of the crustaceans that are a staple in Gulf Coast seafood boils, Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration for the impacted ...

Adler Stelly on his boat in Abbeville, Louisiana on March 15, 2024. Stelly has been farming crawfish his entire life and said he's been hit hard by the drought. It's a cloudy day in mid-March, and ...

In Louisiana, weather turns rice fields into crawfish ponds, linking seasonal rain, heat and flooding to one of Cajun Country ...

Drought conditions over the summer boiled crawfish before farmers could harvest them, creating a dire situation that the governor has declared a disaster. Farmers and scientists say a summertime ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration Wednesday for the state’s critical crawfish industry, as extreme weather disrupted this year’s harvest and triggered a shortage of the tiny ...

CROWLEY, La. (AP) — Spring is peak season in Louisiana for crawfish, the hard-shelled star of outdoor parties. But a shortage of foreign workers is dampening the mood. Today in History: September 27, ...