In 2006, Louisiana put in place RS 14:67 which highlights the theft of crawfish.

Anyone who commits the crime of theft of crawfish for a value of $500 or more shall be imprisoned for not more than 10 years of may be fined not more than three thousand dollars.

A shrimper from Dulac is pulling up nets in the mornings and putting on boxing gloves at night.

With a current record of 18 wins, 1 loss, and 2 draws, and a continental heavyweight championship in hand, Jonathan Guidry hopes to keep rising as a prizefighter.

The wildlife in Louisiana is wilder than most. As if we didn't have our hands full with alligators, snakes, bears, wildcats, and way more native creatures than you can count, we also play unwilling host to a number of foreign species that are classified as "invasive." Those are the critters that make themselves right at home in our state, and damage it in the process.

Hurricane Ida, and three others in two years, has thrown the Gulf seafood industry into turmoil. Add to that Covid, unprecedented fuel prices, new state and federal fishing regulations, inflation and a tight labor market; the result has been astronomical seafood costs for both the individual consumer and restaurants across the country.

U.S. Congressmen Garret Graves of Louisiana and Jerry Carl of Alabama recently sent a letter to Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, requesting the department once again purchase Gulf shrimp under Section 32 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act to be donated to schools, the underprivileged and disaster relief groups.

Louisiana is an economic ecosystem of wetlands, waterways and generations that work them. A place where the livelihoods of commercial fishermen, seafood processors and restaurateurs all intertwine. Linking them all—from Lake Pontchartrain to the Atchafalaya Basin to the Gulf Coast—is a life source.

Fifty-five years and more than a dozen hurricanes later, Jean Lafitte shrimp dock owner Randy Nunez has had enough. Hurricane Ida dealt the deathblow to a dock where as a kid he would work with his father and listen to tales told by shrimpers as he unloaded their boats.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has experienced a high volume of questions regarding the new license requirement for roadside crabbing.

Before Hurricane Ida, Montegut oysterman Mark Naquin admits the last couple of year’s production on his leases was slow. He had hope 2021 would be better. Recent plantings showed baby oysters everywhere. Then the storm undid his hard work leaving his business in shambles.

The crawfish season is winding down, but it is not too late to have one last boil before they go away.