Live crawfish

[MathGeek]

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.

[Top Dawg]

I'll catch my own

[SteelD]

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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[Lil Silver]

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.

[fishinpox]

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

[BuckingFastard]

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.

[swampman46]

Originally Posted by BuckingFastard

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.

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

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by BuckingFastard

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.

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.

[mriguy]

Originally Posted by BuckingFastard

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.

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

[AubreyLaHaye458]

Originally Posted by mriguy

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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[mriguy]

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458

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

[AubreyLaHaye458]

Originally Posted by mriguy

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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[swampman46]

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458

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


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Never implied the job was easy...or the fuel was cheap...or the equipment was free- as I'm sure farmers get no gov't assistance. Simply looking for the reason behind such a huge increase from one year to the next. Maybe I'm the only one that feels "the industry" seems to forget just who it is that made the industry to begin with. It's not the recipients of shipments out of state...it's not the restaurants. It's the little people like most of us here. And we're the ones getting the shaft. Without the little people there would be no "industry." I'm done.

[yellalilyslicker]

Originally Posted by BuckingFastard

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.

This dude has no clue, been doing this over 30 years and have never just had everything out there except fuel.

["W"]

Originally Posted by BuckingFastard

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.

Wrong, there is a lot more than that, 1st off you have to seed every year and $3.00 diesel to pump water cost a lot

And then those $25 per trap ( might be more now)

And gas for boats
Labor
Bait
Repairs
Did I say pumping water?





Back in the day when diesel was. 30 a gallon you made more per sack than now

[keakar]

Originally Posted by "W"

Wrong, there is a lot more than that, 1st off you have to seed every year and $3.00 diesel to pump water cost a lot

And then those $25 per trap ( might be more now)

And gas for boats
Labor
Bait
Repairs
Did I say pumping water?





Back in the day when diesel was. 30 a gallon you made more per sack than now

agreed, its like farming, people say they don't do anything, just plow the field and plant the seeds and it just grows lol. just because you cant imagine all the unseen work and investment that went into it doesn't mean doing it is as easy and care free an endeavor as it is thought to be.

so much of what goes into it is never seen or understood. not to mention the times the egrets swarm in and eat 50% of the crawfish before they can be caught. I remember those poor guys on the news with nets and wire and fireworks and sound cannons having to sit on their ponds for 14 hours a day trying to fend them off just to survive because you cant shoot the damn things that were eating them out of house and home.

I think market depicts price and I don't begrudge them the high prices, hell they need to make a living, I just begrudge the ones overpaying and driving up prices for everyone else. where ever you get to a price you aren't willing to pay, that sets the top market price and it wont go higher until someone is willing to pay more and that's the problem. its the person who says he needs it and wants it and doesn't care what it costs that is the blame for such higher prices.

if it costs more to produce then the price we are willing to pay then people will go back to catching wild crawfish and not farm raised. the land owners will do whatever makes the most money from their land (as they should) weather that's crawfish farming or planting a crop. hell pretty soon they will all only be growing medical marijuana if they pass that law and you wont see much private land used for crawfish anymore.

[BassYakR]

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

[BuckingFastard]

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

[AubreyLaHaye458]

Originally Posted by BuckingFastard

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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[BuckingFastard]

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