Crawfish farmers are expecting the 2025 mudbug season to be a vast improvement compared to this year. The historic drought of 2023 led to a delayed season with low supplies this year. But the LSU AgCenter’s area crawfish extension agent Todd Fontenot says recent rainfall should lead to a better 2025.
As Sean Ricardson with Louisiana Public Radio (LPR) reports, Fontenot explained, “We’re definitely looking at a much better beginning of the season and a much better fall, with more normal-like conditions.”
Fontenot attributes this optimism not just to recent rainfall. He also points to a strong crop of young crawfish emerging from their burrows in recent months. “Saw a lot of crawfish emerging almost immediately after flood up with some good healthy young that were dispersed into the ponds.”
Fontenot anticipates a robust harvest for 2025, with boiling spots beginning to open, allowing people to plan their crawfish boils for March, April, and May. “The conditions are to where they are moving, and the more they move the more they will forage and eat and the more they can move and eat and forage the more they will grow.”
