Crawfish Contribute Millions To Louisiana Ag Economy
By Ron Smith
Delta Farm Press
Crawfish add more than $423 million annually to the Louisiana economy with more than $250 million at the farmgate.
"It's a significant business in Louisiana," says Mark Shirley, LSU area Extension agent, Abbeville, La. Shirley says the latest figures from the LSU AgCenter show producers managed 248,000 acres of crawfish in the 2018-19 season, producing more than 140 million pounds of crawfish.