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 ...