ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KPEL News) – As a state, we harvest somewhere between 120 to 150 million pounds of crawfish in the state, and the industry rakes in millions of dollars from that harvest.
In fact, one of the largest industries in Louisiana is the crawfish industry, which provides a ton of those delicious crustaceans not just to everyone in the state, but around the country.
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This year, the state is struggling, with the harvest being way down and prices being way up. Things are so bad that Gov. Jeff Landry has issued a disaster declaration
Louisiana has a long history of crawfish being a vital part of Louisiana culture – dating all the way back to the indigenous tribes who were here before the earliest Europeans. The Houma tribe respected the crawfish, which was abundant in the swamps of south Louisiana because they didn’t back down from a fight and instead raised their claws to fight when threatened…