Dismal crawfish season after past summer of drought, heat in Louisiana, Texas
3/15/2024 10:48:13 PM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
Tourism & Recreation
AFFECTED AREAS:
Louisiana
Texas
Start Date: 3/12/2024
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This crawfish season has so far been rather dismal after the heat and drought of the 2023 summer and the bitterly cold weather in January. Prices were higher for the crustaceans, where they were even available.
“Many retail outlets in Texas cities outside of the Houston or Beaumont area are simply listing crawfish as ‘not available’ or ‘out for the season,’” according to an aquaculture specialist and director of the AgriLife Extension Aquatic Diagnostics Lab, Bryan-College Station. “This leaves many major metropolitan consumption areas such as Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio largely without a supply of crawfish.”
The greater the distance from the crawfish farms, the more people will likely pay for crawfish.
AgriLife Today (College Station, Texas), March 12, 2024
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