Frank Lyko, a biologist at the German Cancer Research Center, studies the 6-inch-long marbled crawfish. Finding specimens is easy: Lyko can buy the crawfish at pet stores in Germany, or he can head ...

Outside a boiling pot - and certain parts of the American south - the crawfish is an odd animal to see. So imagine being in Germany, where the crawfish population has exploded in one of the most ...

This time last year, Langenstein's grocery in Old Metairie was selling between 40 and 80 pounds of live crawfish a day. "We'd get four deliveries a week, around 160 pounds at a time," store manager ...

I thought, naively, the same thing as one of my colleagues: "I didn't know a crawfish shortage was possible!" Bolstered by reports from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries of the state ...

Boiled crawfish that sold for between $3 or $4 per pound in Feb. 2013 are now running as much to $6.99, depending on the outlet. And live crawfish costs around $4.99. Have the high prices deterred ...

Crawfish farmers who rely on the Vermilion River to flood and drain their fields are only just now discovering the impact hurricanes Laura and Delta had on their crops. Philip Emanuel, who farms on ...

The Lenten season of reflection and repentance is somewhat theologically undermined by Louisiana’s vital crawfish season, but this year started a bit slowly because of the polar vortex, an act of God.