News, Culture and NPR for Central & Northern Michigan
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
91.7FM Alpena and WCML-TV Channel 6 Alpena are off the air. Click here to learn more.

Louisiana's crawfish industry will 'cease to exist' as farmers there know it if drought continues

Melvin Barnes cleans live crawfish in his seafood market. (Gerald Herbert/AP)
Melvin Barnes cleans live crawfish in his seafood market. (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Here & Now host Peter O’Dowd speaks with Louisiana State University aquaculture professor Greg Lutz about the environmental conditions leading to a shortage of crawfish in Louisiana during Lent this month, when crawfish traditionally are eaten instead of meat.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.