So they’re not able to travel back and forth to trap,” he explained. Could the 2025 Louisiana crawfish season be more normal? Here’s what could change He said they were able to get back in ...

Louisiana produces 90% of the United States' crawfish. Most of the farmed crawfish comes from rice fields in one small area of Cajun country. There, the industry is fairly new. In the 1980s ...

Shirley said, “Crawfish are cold blooded animals in that the temperature will influence their metabolism not only in what they’re eating or growing, but also coming to the traps.” ...

Thein Nguyen, Gordon Ramsay, and Captain Wilbert are on their way to unload crawfish traps in the marshes of southern Louisiana. Photo by National Geographic/Justin Mandel From the original ...

In South Louisiana, crawfish season and Mardi Gras go hand ... "So what you see is them not going in the traps," Gambill said. "They're not moving around the pond. They're not wanting to go ...