Crawfish Price Index

[Bearcarver]

I actually prefer tail meat in an etouffee or a stew but everyone that comes here from out of town wants them boiled.
It takes 9# on avg. of live crawfish to yield 1# of tail meat. Better value is to buy tail meat......

That's the way I look at it, and the only way I ever bought them was "Tails only".
Funny they never made it to the Commodity Market, with Pork Bellies & Soy Beans!!LOL

Bear

 

[HalfSmoked]

Great post indaswamp its crazy how local items become so costly when they are shipped to other areas and it changes the supply and demand.

Warren

 

[indaswamp]

History of Crawfish consumption in the US...
https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals.../history-of-crawfish-aquaculture-in-louisiana

Really took off during the Great Depression when the Government funded studies for alternate food sources of proteins.