Crawfish season is thriving with larger yields and favorable weather, but labor shortages are slowing farm operations.

Peeling plants are scrambling for seasonal workers, but one area plant owner says locals aren’t lining up for the jobs.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30). A new year begins with new resolve and new ...

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 ...