Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South’s rice and crawfish farms

Farmers in Louisiana are going toe-to-toe with some nasty enemies: apple snails that clog crawfish traps while laying ...

Giant snails stifle production on Louisiana crawfish farms

Farmers in Louisiana are going toe-to-toe with a nasty enemy: large apple snails that clog crawfish traps while laying ...
Baton Rouge Business Report

Invasive pests are threatening Louisiana rice and crawfish

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 south Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For every crawfish ...
WGNO

LSU students design ‘robotic arm’ to trap crawfish– could end the back-breaking work

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU Biological and ...
WDSU

Louisiana men cited for crab trap, crawfish theft

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited two Louisiana men for alleged crab trap violations on May 21 in St. Mary and Terrebonne Parishes.Agents cited Nathan Adams, 23, ...
NOLA.com

Michigan crawfish invasion? Louisiana experts come to the rescue, and to feast

As Michigan grapples with a never-before-seen invasion of red swamp "crayfish" threatening cities' infrastructures and ecosystems, mudbug experts from Lafayette have organized a Cajun culture lesson ...