ST. MARTIN PARISH, LA ( KLFY ) — Crawfish farmers all over the state had a harvest they want to forget following the drought. “It hurt last year you know. We all did.” said Mike Clay, a crawfish farmer.
When the drought depleted the crawfish crop, Clay have to give up for the season because there was no point in even trying. Clay has been farming for 40 years. He said an average season for him is about five to 600 pounds per acre per year.
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Clay said he put out “400 traps and caught 25 pounds of crawfish. That made up my mind last year that we were not going to fish.”
While Clay said crawfish farming is not his only job, it is for many farmers, and they rely on the yearly harvest.
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