Crawfish shortage impacts Louisiana's economy
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Crawfish are a Southern delicacy that are always in high demand - but this year, they're in short supply. The crustaceans are hard to find right now due to a devastating drought in the region, and that's hurting a lot of wallets in Louisiana. Janet Shamlian reports.
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So sad to hear this because I love crawfish 😢
may i introduce you to its cousin, The Almighty Lobster?
10.00 a pound is more like 10.00 for about 2 ounces of meat if that much.
its outta hand. I'll wait a few more months.
New Orleans $13 a pound😳
Climate change affects all.
And the GOP denies it’s real and refuses to do anything about it.
@@TBrl8 If you ask them it's all Obama and Biden's fault. Or is it Taylor Swift this week?
@TBrl8 do what ? You don't know what to do liberal bot
@@TBrl8u had to make it political huh?
@@joshuastefanick4806 Yes, because the GOP really belives that climate change is not real
Crabs in the AK, Lobsters in ME and now crawfish in LA. Unfortunately, we are finally paying the bill for foolhardy management.
Umm. They don’t taste like a cross between a shrimp and a crab. Let’s jus get that straight
Crawfish and rice are a staples in Louisiana. Both are being hurt by climate change. It’s a hard life for these workers. Unfortunately, it May cause 2 industries to fail.
good thing people in Louisiana vote for a party that claims climate change doesn't exist
no wonder you will never be successful in life. one bad season and you already thinking about fail
and racoon and alligators are delicious
its by design so we can start eating plants and land roaches @@scm4you599
Eat something else
Sales have slowed to a crawl
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Sounds like poor water management in the southern states
What water? There is no water in a DROUGHT! Hard to manage something that doesn’t exist because there’s no rain to provide it.
@@anb7408 No water eh. The Mississippi River flows clear into the ocean, and you just waste all that water. That one river discharges about 593,000 cubic feet of water per second into the gulf.
@@anb7408 I was just echoing the statement I've heard a million times about the drought here in California. You better dam up the Mississippi and start storing that water, and quit complaining
Went 3 videos down and found one for a Louisiana company harvesting 60,000 pounds of crawfish a day from 6 months ago. How is that sustainable? Shortages come from over use.
Fishing industry may have to yield to conservation tourism. When the life disappears it's a sign of more to come. Time for these folks to change industries.
The crawfish is leaving also because of high crime rates
Im from Louisiana we have a 20 acres of land full of crawfish but now the drought is killing us.
strange thing is that in many places in the uk crawfish are an invasive species and there are so many they don't know what to do with them all
Eat dat baw
Y'all better learn Cajun cooking and preserve the cuisine for the planet. Home is where the heart is. Hope to see some Louisiana folk move over and keep it moving!!
More invasive than the human species?
why dont you start a company to bring them to US? you gonna be rich kid
😢… I’m so sorry to hear this…
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Unfortunately, this is just the start. I hate to be this guy, but I'm glad that it's starting to affect people's pockets so that they understand that this isn't a game. That's the only way these people will understand that there's a problem is when their money gets messed up. That's the only thing they understand
Couldn’t say it better myself. The answer to the question is almost ALWAYS “follow the money”.
And ur comment helps ,how
Wow! Global warming 😢 ! Just like my fav fish was King but it's no more... MAN 😭!
Like I keep saying, you can debate climate change being real or not but, you can deny the growing economic impact on the economy. The deniers are those focused on profits. Now profits are being destroyed.
And some people thought climate change was fake news...
The climate denying republican party needs to see this report
You think not enough rain for a good crawfish season is climate change? Last year was phenomenal.
@@139fulton your mama
the earths climate is always changing though...
move your production and gethering trucks north. we got loads up here in the tri state area, (Oh, KY, IN) and we dont really eat em up here. come get em .
Crawfish goes, " Thank you Mother Nature... Thank you. Let those pesky humans find something else to eat for awhile. "
i love this fishermans accent. Off the boat you can tell he's really putting in effort to tone down the accent lol
Cajun
He has that southern tobacco accent
That’s not a necessity food. Also it’s not light they’ll lower the price back to original when the stock increases back to normal. Long term they’ll make more than they missed.
Tried eating those things, way too much energy expanded to eat so small of table fare
Well this just sticks in your craw.
We haven’t had snow in MN. So I’m guessing the Mississippi River will have lower waters this spring.
Which is great for me as a truck driver
Wonder how much lose in revenue it will take for companies to really take some action in supporting the green sector, to support the work against climate change.
crawfish is too difficult to eat... I prefer shrimp or lobster
The meat doesn't even taste that good.
Do you ever eat fruit?
How come the farmers don't have back up wells for the drought season I mean why does not the government give the farmers aid by haveing wells for the drought season or have the government supply the water during the drought season.
Kroger been selling them from Egypt for a while. People assume they’re from us. 😢
I wont forget the people in the south that said climate change doesnt exist. Let the fishermen have nothing for their contemp for the status quo. I absolutely laugh at you
Is it from over-crawfishing?
Nah wild caught is a very small fraction. Most are harvested on rice fields during the off-season. This year we had a drought, bad rice crop, double bad crawfish crop. The silver lining is that the wetlands actually look like they recovered a bit
learn to eat other things, or be like a panda, sloth or koala lol
There should be a crawfish ETF
Listen people this is a way to rise the prices. More people are eating crawfish nowadays.
a way to raise the price? It's simple supply and demand.... nobody's jacking up the price on purpose, when u have less of something, that's when price go up
Bugs (Land): 🤮
Bugs (Water):😋
i was wondering why they were $16 a pound here in dallas, this makes me so sad
It is all about timing for these crawfish farmers they have a season and are commercial fishers and farmers. They only have so much time to seed and grow a crawfish crop before they shut that operation down to plant and turn the same ponds into rice fields.
Louisiana has plenty of swamps and marshy areas that produce crawfish from spring into summer that you can catch your own crawfish.
I mean .. do you need a bowl of 60 of those per person ??
That'd the standard American sized portion. 😭
Sorry to hear about crawfish economy..pray 4 rain..
Well, maybe the House Speaker and Senator John Kennedy can explain why they wont vote for climate change initiatives
Climate change even if by just a few degrees may mean Crawfish may need to be grown in other states, maybe they can grow something else, as it's not going to change other than to get a few degrees hoter each year rain or no rain.
LOL there's no shortage, this is just how they justify raising the prices. I live in SW Louisiana, not one restaurant has reported "running out" of crawfish. Crawfish still flows like water, just costs as much as your electric bill now.
Exactly, the son of a farmer/seller told me his ponds had no problems because they pumped their water from underground, and yet his crawfish are $13.99 a pound! On top of jacked up prices some congress critter is proposing a bill for the Federal government pay the farmers $300 an acre in disaster relief..............while they're charging 3-4 times the normal price!
Love crawfish. So much better than lobster!
As a Mainer, I gotta disagree there, Mikey!
My wife is crying it's her favorite thing to eat
So heartbreaking
Never tasted crawfish
Crawfish is a waste
Up north, we call them creek lobsters .
Good eating 😋
Not for me
Gee, duh. OVER fishing, ya think??
Ohhh no!!!!!!!!!!! But you’re right, it was a shortage, I paid $42 for 3lb of crawfish
"heart of creole country"... This is Cajun country, hence the name CAJUN TABLE
I paid 16.99/pound for boiled crawfish today 😮
Never had a drought before? Its a cycle.
Good thing this area doesn't believe in global warming 😂🤣
All I am hearing is crawfish gonna be 15 bucks a pound now.
Just eat something else.
It's not always Christmas
Over fishing , need state regulators like the ones in Maine in Louisiana . Sustainability is key in the industry.
It's not overfishing that's causing the problem, but global warming. I don't expect things to change until something drastic happens, like when NYC or New Orleans goes under water.
It has nothing to do with "over-fishing" as most of the farmers dig their own ponds, stock them adding "seeders" and then harvest what they raised. They wouldn't exist at all unless the farmers created and seeded the ponds!
@@randallmarsh1187 soo simply just “global warming” or what’s the issue exactly?
@@user-yq6cj2kt8t I believe that humans are affecting the climate and I also believe that weather changes and is somewhat cyclical. How much each of them contributed is the argument. We had a very severe drought for months and the few fisherman who catch wild crawfish are catching fewer, but most of the fisherman that have their own ponds simply pumped water from underground or nearby rivers, canals, bayous. A neighbor is the son of a farmer/retailer and told me that his ponds had no issues and they just pumped more water.
A shortage of Yabbies? That’s unheard of.
I bet these farmers get Reparations 😮
Hold it by the antenna
Let’s see if we can eat money…
That’s what we all believe…it is not
We as humans need to stop with the massive plastic, waste, chemicals…
We are ridiculously stupid..sighhhh
I’m from New Orleans this sad 😢news
Raw crawfish? Ok
this aint no sushi, you boil them before you eat 'em silly
That business is over unless they go Craw hatchery style farm raised. Small tanks
Jethro and Billy Bob gonna have to go without this season
Nah mane... we got plenty for us yea😂😂😂😂😂
BS the fact is there is no shortage of crawfish in general. The crawfish farming industry is just not able to keep up with demand.
No individuals hardly set personal nets any more but we are fixing to start again.
Ain’t no crawdads heeya.
You can Thank, Capitalism for the Climate Change Crisis
Louisiana has an economy?
Born & raised in Louisiana’s our Crawfish, shrimp, crabs and fishing industries have been staples. Unfortunately, the oil and gas industries have harmed much of our coastal areas. We grow excellent rice and yes cotton. It is a hunter’s paradise but our land is dying due to climate changes and pollution. We are loosing miles of coastline annually.
We actually have a really big economy we just don't get the money for it. Like we got all the petroleum and aluminum but all the accountants and lawyers get paid in Texas and New York. Back in the day our government tried to fight the big companies and now our government just lets them do whatever they want so long as they pay a tiny bit of taxes.
do you use petroleum products????😂😂😂😂Yes we are an integral part of this country's economy.. we also have one of the largest ports .
@@teresalegler2777and Trump wants to make oil and gas larger. How much this would affect Louisiana and southern states love Trump
Wasn't crawfish a booming business in the rice fields ? 😂😂😂😂😂
Why really? Like y’all keep trying to say we have shortages of all kinds. Like chicken and now chicken is stupid expensive people can’t afford to eat!
$17 pound right now.
Then catch the invasive crawfish.
to me lobster is much better. Crawfishs don’t have much meat
It harms the ecosystem in my country, Korea 😢
Lol. What is that music? Instead of blues, it should be zydeco.
Keep taking and dont restock.
They b aight , just gotta switch gears for a season or 2
You reap what you sow. All these climate deniers.
I suspect that the crawfish shortage is also seriously effecting the dating scene in Louisiana. Of course, in terms of Louisiana dating, family reunions are always the best venue.
I’m sure MAGA will blame Biden
And your mama
😂
Tax everyone that will fix climate change
So I'll remember about forty years ago when it rained it rained a lot , You could scoop all the crawfish off theroad that you wanted to eat from Ithe flooded roads. Climate comes in patterns people!
vote republican and GET WHAT YOU DESERVE
Other way around 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Mud Bugs 🦗🦗🦗🦗
Funny a Republican state that doesn't believe in climate change is crying about it didn't rain enough.
Your mama
@@cp3allday28 LOL
Maybe now is a good time to stop eating the animals and other creatures that feel pain.
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Has crawfishing become like big ag. Mega farms? How many people fish. Who still fishes the basin
Now we're running out of bugs frikin great 😮
We're going to have a 2 massive broods of cicadas in the next few months. Someone should come up with a recipe quick.
As a business owner, dont ever rely on natural resources. Great way to find yourself out of a job with the times
Where’s Forest Gump ?
ITS ANOTHER SCHEME TO RAISE THE PRICE))
this is all trumps fault
Didn’t snow crab season get canceled as well?
2 year in row snow crab closed but still find on the shelves
Yeah they’re from other parts of the world now.
Damn
Switch over to cicadas for this year.
God says repent or you are done!