How a Louisiana Crawfish Company Harvests 60,000 Pounds a Day
By Kenneth Niemeyer
Business Insider
Louisiana produces 90% of the crawfish found in the United States. Most farmed crawfish come from rice fields in one 35-square-mile area near Welsh, Louisiana.
The industry is fairly new, only entering the mainstream in the 1980s as rice farmers began experimenting with cultivating crawfish in their fields.