Live crawfish
 

Anybody bought some recently? I was just told $4.50/lb! That's around $157 for a sack.

The farmers are getting $3 right now


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2.50 to 3.50 a lb in abbbille

I hear JT's was getting around $4.50 as well. We paid $3.00 from a farmer this past weekend.

Prices will drop after lent.

Problem remains however, that the after lent price is increasing more and more. The time will come that the regular guy like myself, will be priced right out of the season. I mean, where is the ceiling? :( $4.50/lb for live crawfish-in March-is ridiculous. Are crawfish prices even regulated?

It's supply and demand. Plain and simple. When they're catching well the price goes down and when the catch goes down the price goes up. And the catch almost directly affected by the weather and a winter like this one will seriously delay the season. Consistently warmer weather=lower prices.


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A lot of it is not the amount they are catching. Its the amount that is being shipped everywhere now adays.

I hope they all rot in the sack

That's nice


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Price is not regulated. Folks in Missouri are happy to get 3 lbs boiled w/ 1 potato and 1/2 ear corn for $20. Wholesalers can make more $$$ shipping mudbugs up north. So either we pay the price or they get shipped. I say ship em.

Ding ding ding!!!

You're free to go catch your own. Buy the gas, the license, the boat, the bait, the traps. Then spend 12 hours a day trying to find em and, moving trap after trap. It's a 100% profit business!

When I spent my days on the water in '09 we were LUCKY to catch 5 sacks a day on 250 traps! Now, the same 250 traps caught 28-30 sacks per day, seven days a week in May. Guess what, the prices were significantly less in May.

God bless the Louisiana crawfishers. I hope they make lots of $$$. I don't care what they cost. When I want crawfish, I'll gladly pay. It's tough making a living from the water.

If you want a better deal, write your legislature to reduce regulations on the seafood industry, not add more.

I'll catch my own

Well said Math! I think most people do not realize how much work is involved in raising & harvesting crawfish!
Been there, done that, still ware the T-shirt!


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I remember back in the day when I was a lil fart......27 - 30 cents a pound. My dad and uncle would drive to Breaux Bridge and come back with a truck bed full. Just dumped em in the back and threw ice on top. Boiled crawfish all day....walking backwards at the end of the day.

Use your EBT card ........ Lmao

thats what they want you to think... they say the same crap every year... too cold, too wet, too dry, too hot, too many beers. theres always an excuse and they just know these idiots will pay $100 for a meal that doesnt fill them up since its "cajun".

crawfish farmers are making money off land they already use for agriculture. my friend does it and makes a killing. the only thing he has to pay for is diesel for the water pumps. the rest is already there! hard to make a living... right... hes getting rich off of nothing.

boiled crabs or shrimp over crawfish anyday! And I can get my own of both of those for just a lil gas money.

"They" are not telling us anything other than what's going on. I see it everyday just like I have been all my life. The sane reason nobody planted any rice it corn before this week. It's been too cold and none if you can deny that! Just like fishing, when it's cold they don't move and the catch goes down. And it won't get good and stay good until it stays warm for more days than it is cold.


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well that would be like trying to pick a crop before its ripe also. we start eating the crawfish too soon every year.

That's why most if them didn't start running till mid-February or later at least when they usually start the first of the year. It's not that they start too early, they start when the catch is worth the gas and the bait it takes to run.


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doesnt take much to make it worth 4-5/lb

You've forgotten one crucial item...the field, the water to pump in that field. NOT something just anyone can jump into. So when you say "free to catch your own"...not exactly. But I think understand what you're saying, there is a cost in raising crawfish. But has that cost increased this much since last year? I don't remember what crawfish were going for at this time last year(maybe someone here remembers), but this has to be at least a 50% increase.

That's not exactly always the case. We've had cold winters before. We've had a short supply before. We've never had $4.50/lb live crawfish in March before. Problem is, there is a lot of greed along the crawfish grapevine. Now THAT is plain and simple.

The spillway is plum full of them. I never caught a single crawfish from a pond. And, the water, pumps and, land are very expensive...It's a greedy business. Again, Henderson and, Pierre Part has plenty of unleased waters to fish from. It's the hardest I've ever worked but, the most fun I ever had working, with the exception of getting stung by yellow jackets on a near daily basis!

That's inflation. Just like everything else in the world it's getting more expensive. The price of fuel goes up the price of bait goes up the price of labor goes up, you can't seriously the cost of the product to say the same


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Congrats, you are one of the lucky ones. In my area it's not an option. I remember a time back in my childhood when farmers would let people go in and crawfish their ponds...and yes that was a lot of fun.

The price of fuel has been pretty flat over the past 6 years, so I'm getting tired of that excuse. The bottom line is the crawfish farmers will charge whatever they can get for them. If restaurants and these drive thru places wouldn't sell out at ridiculous prices, they would be forced to lower the price. Capitalism at work.

Come on guys. Once price goes up and the market sustains it, the price will never go down. These prices will stay regardless of catch cost because people will pay. Don't sell a man a pound of crawfish at $2 when he is willing to pay $6. These things will be $7-$8 a pound in the next few years and boiling shacks will still sell out by 6pm on the weekends.


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The farmers don't set the price. You think they'd let it get down below $3 if it was up to them? It's not like they're raking in the money here? The price is high because they aren't catching. It may be 3 or 4 dollars a pound, but 7 sacks on 100 acres doesn't exactly leave a whole lot if profit. The price could be $10 a pound but that probably means they're catching like 10 pounds a day


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I agree with Aubrey.... I work with these farmers everyday! Farmers dont set their prices! There is a market price.

I can assure you that not all farmers are making a killing like someone suggested in a previous post!

Lots of crawfish getting shipped out of state. Years ago no one else even ate crawfish.

aliens

I'm receiving quotes to boil 2,000 lbs of crawfish with all of the fixings. We have been having this boil for over 15 yrs. This year, the quotes that have come in are through the roof! They have pretty much doubled. The boil takes place first weekend in May which is well after lent. Pretty crazy if you ask me!

To many middle men in the business.

The docks are the big problem in this business. Fishermen are terrified of them. If they catch too much, the dock won't buy them. If they catch too little, the dock will black list them. Everyone's "hero" Troy Landry is right up there in the dock a-hole list!:work:

The reason the bid is still high in May is because of the horrible winter we had; there is no way of knowing if the farmers will be able to catch up the month or so that they werent able to fish. They cannot speculate that there will be plenty of crawfish based off of this past winter. Last year was different, a very mild winter so it was a lot easier to say that there would be lots and lots of crawfish after lent; this year is very different.

Absolutely. Some of us see it for what it really is. ;)

I also worked for a farmer years ago when the prices were a lot less than now and he did very well. So well in fact that he once questioned why was he farming? :D
As far as not all farmers making a killing...you're right. The farmers that are doing well will tell you, "You take out what you put into it." ;)

Farmers have them we want them what's the problem all you have to do is say no and not buy any problem solved. No need to get your panties in a wad over it.

I had a side job on a crawfish farm when I was in school. It isn't easy and it isn't cheap. It requires risky financial investments and hard work. You go slog around in crawfish ponds for a while, deal with all the gov regulations, and put up money for the required investments, and then get back to us with what you'd like to sell a pound of crawfish for.

Capitalism isn't always ideal for the consumer, but it sure beats the alternatives.

Yea diesel is extremely cheap, they practically give away that artificial bait as well

Don't forget about the shad too. Cheap cheap. And easy and enjoyable to deal with.


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So easy, everybody should do it.

My lovely wife's family must be loaded, they have been doing this for a loooong time

Yeah. lol They're loaded alright!


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It all boils down to dis. Some sorry sucka let word out about how good dey are. Dey told da friend of a friends, unc's, niece's sister's brudda and he told sumbody from outa state somewhere or sumpim sumpin like dat. Now errybody wants our crawfish. It was sposed to be a secret. Da puzzy's out da bag now, no be turning dat back!