Hurricane Laura's 'Serious Impact' on Louisiana Crawfish Farms: Pond Damage, Lost Revenue, More
By Megan Wyatt
The Advocate
Overall, crawfish ponds made it through Hurricane Laura better than many other Louisiana crops.
About 5,000 to 10,000 acres of crawfish ponds were directly damaged by storm surge out of about 250,000 acres of ponds across the state, according to Mark Shirley, a crawfish specialist at the LSU AgCenter.