Live crawfish

[keakar]

at todays prices im just eating mrs pauls fish sticks lol

i'll never pay over $2 a pound for boiled crawfish so long ago I called them an extinct species at my house and moved on to other things.

i'll leave them for yall rich folks

[mr crab]

i think $2 live is about my max price. when they get to that number' , I'll buy some. problem is....A lot of people don't see it that way, so the price may never get that low this year, cuz around here everybody is selling every crawfish they have for $4+ errr dam day

[eman]

As long as folks will buy them small crawfish at high prices ,The price will never go down and the size will never go up.
I see sacks of crawfish that would have fell out of the traps 10 years ago. Smaller mesh doesn't let anything escape.

[AubreyLaHaye458]

Originally Posted by eman

As long as folks will buy them small crawfish at high prices ,The price will never go down and the size will never go up.

This can't really be a serious statement...


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[kibb]

Markets sell small crawfish because of the demand from just coming into season and the Lenten season. As molting starts to occur the crawfish will get bigger. The crawfish will reproduce, stocking density will go up, and small out towards the end of the season, big crawfish will lessen and that ends the season. There's the reason the sell small crawfish.

[eman]

Years ago when i ran traps some of the crawfish they are selling right now would have been able to get out the traps , Smaller mesh size keeps everything.

[Let um land]

Make a guy fish for the sack of crawfish he wants to purchase, he will change his opionion on the price.

[kibb]

What size mesh were you running?

[papap]

Also crawfish do not reproduce during the season.

[kibb]

Originally Posted by papap

Also crawfish do not reproduce during the season.

Correct. My post supposed to say keep producing. The crawfish reproduce right before they burrow, some later than others. That's why there are crawfish for a "season." There are different stages of juveniles. Producing in my previous post would have been referring to peak production.

["W"]

A guy who farms down the road from my house spent $200,000 this year before he caught his 1st crawfish

[papap]

$25 cages. WOW

[duckman1911]

Lots of differing opinions here and most make a good point in some way.
My way of thinking is this.
If a man owns a crawfish farm he should be able to sell his crawfish for whatever price he wants. If he wants $20 a pound that's his business. You don't like his price then buy from another person. His farm, his crawfish, he owns them. I feel the same about price gauging fuel prices during natural disasters. Yes it takes an A hole to sell fuel for 10 bucks a gallon after a disaster but that fuel also belongs to the store owner. It belongs to him/her and they should be able to sell their own property for any price they want.

[rdenison]

Call Obama and see if he can pass Obama Crawfish Care to get those prices down......plan and simple, cold winter, low catch and high demand = high prices. Very simple, when supply is reduced and demand stays constant, you will have higher prices. Believe it are not most craw fish farmers are still in the red this year, at least the ones in my area. One farmer told me if the catch doesn't get better, it will be suicidal, in a bad way. He made a comment on the line it would not matter if prices were $10, if he could not catch any, the result would be the same. He farms about 500 acres and has been paying 3 hands to sit around and do nothing. Ran 250 acres 2 weeks ago caught 3 sacks, you do the math. On another note, from what I understand, he made a killing last year and he thinks this year might be break even, if the catch does not pick up. But let's say he does make another killing this year, and never has to get off his couch to do it, what's wrong with this?


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[mr crab]

medical marijuana is grown indoors.....jussayin