How 60,000 Pounds of Crawfish Are Harvested a Day in Louisiana

By Abby Narishkin, Korey Isbell, and Dorian Barranco

Business Insider

Louisiana produces 90% of the United States' crawfish. Most of the farmed crawfish comes from rice fields in one small area of Cajun country. There, the industry is fairly new. In the 1980s, rice farmers experimented with cultivating crawfish in their fields.

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