It’s rather easy to spot a crawfish pond in Southwest Louisiana, especially Jeff Davis Parish, where you’ll find over 80 thousand acres of Louisiana’s rice and crawfish fields.

A U.S. lawmaker has introduced legislation requiring the federal government to only purchase domestically produced seafood for school lunches and other federal programs.

The amazing thing about a crawfish boil is that there are so many different ways to make it delicious. 

A traditional boil typically includes fat, juicy crawfish, boil seasoning, a bundle of aromatics like onion, garlic, bay leaves and citrus, and hearty additions to round out the meal — your potatoes, corn and sausage. 

The restaurant has no sign — not after a car crashed through it a couple years ago — and its address doesn’t appear on Google Maps. But around Abbeville, everyone seems to know the way to Cajun Claws just the same.

A coalition of Louisianans who have harvested shellfish for generations says global investment bankers are responsible for the environmental damage caused by the liquefied natural-gas industry. They says LNG development over the past two decades has all but destroyed their ability to make a living in Southwest Louisiana.

Since 2006, children and adults wanting to learn more about crawfishing have visited Tallgrass Farm for a tour with Burt Tietje, a third-generation farmer on the land his grandfather homesteaded in 1890. Being a crawfish farmer wasn’t always in Tietje’s plan, but now he says he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Louisiana lawmakers are advancing another package of bills aimed at giving state regulators more teeth against imported seafood and steering more public dollars toward local catch.

Oyster farmers in Terrebonne Parish are questioning the state's decision to reopen bays following a February oil spill, saying oil remains visible in their harvest areas.

The crawfish industry that Louisiana depends on today didn’t just grow organically—it was built, in large part, through decades of LSU research. Now, as new challenges emerge—from extreme weather to evolving biological threats—that same institution is helping shape what comes next.

The Louisiana shrimping industry is taking a direct hit from the high cost of fuel due to the war in Iran.