There’s concern that processors who sell pre-peeled crawfish meat won’t have enough foreign H-2B visa workers to peel all of the crawfish on the market.
Louisiana leads the nation in crawfish production but cold weather, a shortage of workers to process them and other factors have contributed to a slow start to the 2019 season for the freshwater crustacean.
It’s the first Friday of Lent for the million plus Catholics who call Louisiana home, and for many of them, that means ditching red meat and chowing down on seafood.
Michigan is reporting what they call a serious problem with Louisiana red swamp crawfish invading ponds and other bodies of water. A year after it was first reported, it has grown into an "epidemic". It's even being called "disastrous".