ATCHAFALAYA BASIN — Things still aren't looking too good for crawfishermen out on the Basin. KATC spent some time out in the swamp with Basin crawfisherman Ben Bienvenu to get a better look at what he ...

Pinch, twist, pull is a way of life for Louisianans every spring as families and friends gather around the table to share a southern seafood delicacy— crawfish. Usually by Easter, the little red ...

ST. MARTIN PARISH — As a wave of strong winter weather approaches Acadiana, local crawfish farmers and enthusiasts are left wondering how the upcoming freeze will impact the crawfish supply. Mark ...

Congressmen Cleo Fields (D-Baton Rouge) and Clay Higgins (R-Lafayette) have introduced a proposed amendment to the ...

Adler Stelly on his boat in Abbeville, Louisiana on March 15, 2024. Stelly has been farming crawfish his entire life and said he's been hit hard by the drought. It's a cloudy day in mid-March, and ...

Any Louisiana seafood lover will agree— the 2024 crawfish season has been far from normal. As farmers battled with drought and saltwater intrusion in the fall, mudbug prices have stayed higher than ...

ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) — Local leaders and residents of St. Martin Parish held a meeting at the Catahoula multipurpose building to discuss a new management plan aimed at protecting the ...

Beginning in the 1940s, hundreds of miles of pipelines and navigation canals were punched through the Basin’s woods and across its swamplands, interfering with natural water flow and trapping huge ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Quality Poultry & Seafood retail manager Troy Rosetti told WLOX News Now the historic winter storm has had little impact on the current crop of crawfish on the Mississippi Coast ...

The Wax Lake Delta in the Atchafalaya Basin is seen from 8,500 feet in St. Mary Parish, La., Tuesday, May 25, 2021. In geological time, young means thousands of years. On that scale, Louisiana's Wax ...