Crawfish season is underway, but President of the Crawfish Research and Promotion Board David Savoy says the demand has been slow to rise. Savoy says some people may view Super Bowl weekend as the official kickoff of the season.
“In a sense it is, it’s just everything seems to be a month later than last year. We were going good in December last year,” said Savoy.
While he’s thankful for recent success on the gridiron, Savoy believes football may have distracted locals away from crawfish boils.
“I think LSU got all our money,” said Savoy, laughing, “People who do crawfish boils and stuff were tied up in championship game, which is a good thing, but I really believe the concentration was directed more towards football.”
Some have taken an issue with the price of crawfish, but Savoy says even though prices will never be what they were 20 or 30 years ago, it’s still a great bargain.
“People don’t mind paying for a good beefsteak and I guarantee you if it’s a pound of crawfish or a sack of crawfish, the same money will feed more people. Money well spent and you’ll have a good time doing it,” said Savoy.
According to the LSU AgCenter, more acres of farmland are producing crawfish this year and are expected to produce close to 150 million pounds of mudbugs.
