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“The warm winter weather really helped crawfish to grow and farmers to catch them,” she said. In response to the ample supply and to trigger customer demand for things such as early crawfish boils, businesses are dropping prices.
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“A year ago, we were selling 60 to 80 sacks of crawfish a week,” said Will Boutte, the owner-manager of Capital City Crawfish in Baton Rouge, a Government Street market that also has wholesale and catering operations. “This year, live and boiled, we are selling about 250 sacks a week. We’re off to a real good start.”
While it's still early and a lot of things could go wrong this crawfish season, like a late cold snap, Boutte said prices are on track to be the lowest in about eight years. He predicts Capital City Crawfish will sell between 800 to 900 sacks at the season's Easter peak; last year they sold 500 to 600 sacks. "We had almost no cold weather this year, maybe three frosts, no freezes," he said. "That's helped out tremendously."
Strong early crawfish seasons are generally factors of mild weather and above average winter rainfall......both being adverse conditions for our hunting.