Stephane Padgett, an owner of Doguet’s crawfish farm in China, told that crawfish live off rice when it’s in the ground and it helps rice farmers because the crawfish eat the stubble after the rice is harvested and make it easier to plow the fields. Crawfish season usually gets it peak in April and May but due to an early Easter the local crawfish farms busy providing meals.
Lisa Doguet, an owner of Doguet’s Crawfish Farm in China, informed that her farm is yielding more crawfish per day on average than last year at the same time. But John Gaulding, owner of Southeast Texas Crawfish Farm in Hamshire, admit that his farm failed to produce more as weather and other circumstances have prevented him from that.
Greg Lutz, a professor at Louisiana State University’s Agricultural Center in Baton Rouge, La., said that Red Swamp are most common species of crawfish that raised on farms out of more than 300 species of crawfish in the country. Lutz said that high fuel and bait costs are causing crawfish prices to rise this year.
According to the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center, it takes about seven pounds of live crawfish to yield one pound of peeled tails. Therefore the need of more crawfish is increasing with each day and the pressure on the crawfish farms is mounting.
