(22 Mar 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Slidell, Louisiana – 28 June 2023
1. Wide of sun shining
2. Tight of heat radiating off of road
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Chalmette, Louisiana – 21 March 2024
3. Wide of crawfish
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Pohlmann, Restaurant Owner:
“The amount of crawfish that are coming in, the supply is not that great and demand is high so it’s got to balance you know I’m saying.”
5. Various of Today’s Ketch Seafood booth loading boxes of crawfish, selling crawfish
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Pohlmann, Restaurant Owner:
“Nobody’s really getting rich off this stuff you know. You look at the farmer, the retailer and I mean, you know the poor consumer’s got to eat it but we go to work to make a living just like everybody else does and unfortunately prices have to be a little higher than normally what we’re accustomed to.”
7. Wide of menu pricing
SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Pohlmann, Restaurant Owner:
“I’ve never experienced this before, and it hits you in the pocket book, hits you in the back pocket.”
8. Keiara Williams peeling and eating crawfish
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Keiara Williams, Chalmette, Louisiana Resident:
“Crawfish, everything crawfish out here for real. And yea I like crawfish. They gotta be cooked right but I like crawfish.”
10. Various of crawfish pasta, crawfish pies and crawfish bread
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Keiara Williams, Chalmette, Louisiana Resident:
“This year I’ve been to zero (crawfish boils). On a normal year I’d say about 10. They just got the crawfish high. Ain’t nobody willing to buy them to do the event.”
12. Wide of Sara Garcia peeling, eating crawfish
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara Garcia, New Orleans Resident:
“This is like a family, friend type thing where everybody just kind of stands around, just interacts, eats and drinks has a good time.”
14. Tight of Garcia peeling crawfish
15. Wide of crowds dodging rain, eating crawfish dishes
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Perry Durapau, Violet, Louisiana Resident:
“A lot of times I’ll go to crawfish boils put on not just by friends but, like companies and I hadn’t seen any yet.”
17. Various of rainy Louisiana Crawfish Festival
STORYLINE:
Louisiana crawfish are in demand despite a shortage of the mudbugs driven by last summer’s drought, extreme heat, saltwater intrusion on the Mississippi River and a hard winter freeze.
The state is the nation’s top producer of crawfish, but last year harvested a fraction of what is typical in a season.
Potential losses to the state’s crawfish industry are estimated to be nearly $140 million.
The tiny crustaceans are a staple in Gulf Coast seafood boils and Louisiana’s way of life, and fans are still buying and selling them, including at a crawfish festival in southern Louisiana that was noticeably more expensive this week.
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