ROANOKE, La. (WAFB) - Burt Tietje is a third generation Louisiana rice farmer who now spends half of his time harvesting crawfish. “We were a bunch of German grain farmers out here, but in 1970, we ...

Juan Antonio harvests crawfish traps in a crawfish pond in Crowley, La., Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Juan Antonio harvests crawfish traps in a crawfish pond in Crowley, La., ...

A Rapides Parish man was arrested Sunday and accused of stealing roughly 500 pounds of crawfish from a local farmer's traps in late April, according to the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office.

RAPIDES PARISH, La. — A Louisiana man was arrested after stealing hundreds of pounds of crawfish over several weeks, authorities said. According to the Sheriff's Office, deputies caught him red-handed ...

A 47-year-old man from the US town of Echo, Louisiana, was arrested last month following complaints from a local crawfish farmer who had his traps emptied overnight on multiple occasions, according to ...

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. For ...

There was a time when grading crawfish by size was not commonplace. That changed in 1987, according to the LSU AgCenter, when ...

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CROWLEY, La. (AP) — Spring is peak season in Louisiana for crawfish, the hard-shelled star of outdoor parties. But a shortage of foreign workers is dampening the mood. US home sales fall in March, ...