Louisiana Crawfish: Harvest Off to Slow Start; Monitor Bait Costs

By Mark Shirley, LSU AgCenter Extension Crawfish Specialist

The crawfish harvest season got off to a slow start in December. Since the catch was slow in all areas of the state, we can assume that the cool rainy weather and abundant food supply in the ponds made the crawfish bait less attractive. Crawfish were either too cold to move to the traps or the abundance of natural food was sufficient so they were not attracted to the bait.