I just got whiff of this story. This can be bad news to the Crawfish lovers. Let's hope this gets better. This article is from The Shreveport Times.
It's not the best of news as the south Louisiana crawfish harvest gets under way.
Consumers will likely pay more for their crawfish this year, and there may not be as many of them, according to Steve Minville, executive director of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association.
The primary culprits are a dry summer and the cost of diesel that made it too expensive to pump enough water into them, according to Mark Shirley, LSU AgCenter aquaculture specialist.
"Crawfish are going to cost a bunch more this year," Shirley says.
The price has to go up or the producers will have to go out of business, Minville says.
"Last year, fewer than 5 percent of the crawfish producers covered their expenses," Minville says. "You can't go on like that."
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