~ Salt left by Hurricane Rita and a drought have cut production by 70 percent. FORKED ISLAND, La. -- Cajun rancher Charles Broussard needs a favor from the good Lord: Oodles of rain to wash away the ...

“Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdad: The Biology and Conservation of North America’s Favorite Crustaceans” by Zackary A. Graham, The University of North Carolina Press, 232 pages. As crawfish season winds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Macias picks up crawfish traps while harvesting the catch at Bayou Best Crawfish Farm in Sour Lake, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026.

You can love crawfish, you can be obsessed with them, you can post your social media pictures of all their red shell glory until your phone dies. But I have a firm conviction that no one ever really ...

In Louisiana, weather turns rice fields into crawfish ponds, linking seasonal rain, heat and flooding to one of Cajun Country’s favorite foods.

Every morning, the kitchen at the Crawfish Café in Pearland, TX, is a hive of activity as fresh crawfish arrive daily from Louisiana. This year’s crawfish season has been particularly strong, with ...

When my wife and I got married three decades ago, our rehearsal dinner was a backyard crawfish boil. A small windfall of a spring wedding in Louisiana is that crawfish are in season. They were ...