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.

Richard, La (WVUE) - In the tiny town of Richard in Louisiana, Savoy Farms has 1,600 acres dedicated to raising crawfish. When we visited the farm near the beginning of this year’s crawfish season, ...

KAPLAN, La. – 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.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Crawfish season in Louisiana this year was heavily affected by the summer drought in 2023, an arctic blast and rising costs for farmers. Anyone who wanted to buy live or ...

As tired light filtered through the fog on a recent Monday morning, Daniel Valenzuela sloshed shin-deep into a flooded rice paddy in Southeast Texas. He shoved a scoop-shaped sled along the ground in ...

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 every crawfish ...