Crawfish supplies up for Easter weekend in Lousiana, as weather finally puts some volume in pots
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS - April 14, 2014
LAFAYETTE — Louisiana crawfishermen and the merchants who sell the crustacean to retail customers say the supply should be enough to satisfy appetites during Holy Week and Easter weekend, a welcome turn to a season marred by a harsh winter that stunted crawfish growth, limited the catch and made profit forecasts bleak.
In the days leading into Holy Week, prices for a pound of live crawfish ran from $2 at Db Seafood in Morgan City to $2.49 at Tony’s Seafood Market and Deli in Baton Rouge. The price was somewhere in between at D&T Seafood in Abbeville, where live, small-sized crawfish sold for $1.50 a pound and the mediums went for $2.25.
“We’re going to have a decent supply” for Easter week, said D&T owner Don Benoit.
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