CROWLEY, La. (KPLC) - A visa cap, a partial government shutdown, and denied visa applications are threatening Louisiana’s crawfish industry, leaving most crawfish peeling plants without the seasonal ...

Shortage of H-2B visas threatens Louisiana's $640m crawfish industry, leaving the state's 20 crawfish processors with no option to hire migrant workers.

Two crawfish farm workers could have to pay $15,000 after authorities said they shot and killed an endangered whooping crane.

Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says that due to immigration caps only a quarter of crawfish processors have been able to bring in the guest workers that they rely on.

Your favorite seafood restaurant, buffet, or fishing buddy will soon have crawfish. Crawfish, also known as "mudbugs," are considered a delicacy in the Southern U.S. According to The Houston Chronicle ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Valenzuela shows off a crawfish during a catch at Bayou Best Crawfish Farm in Sour Lake. Cold snaps, rain and fog can ...

Whatever you know them as — crawfish, crayfish or the more colorful “mudbug” — the familiar crustaceans found at seafood boils allow sea farmers a relatively short harvesting season can be made or ...

Brothers and third-generation Louisiana farmers have opened a drive-thru crawfish shack in Lafayette. Big Red’s Crawfish opened in late January at 438 East Pont des Mouton Road, across from the old ...

Climate Rice and Crawfish Pests A crawfish crawls through apple snails after harvest Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, at a farm in Kaplan, La. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel ...

KAPLAN, La. (AP) — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For ...