High Mississippi River Brings Unexpected Crawfish Population Explosion

By John Snell, WVUE-TV

This year’s crawfish season might stretch just a little bit longer thanks to an unexpected find -- crawfish by the thousands being harvested on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish. Foster Creppel, a coastal activist, steered his boat through the closest thing you might find to white water in South Louisiana’s Mardi Gras Pass.