(photo courtesy of LSU AgCenter)
If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Memorial Day or graduation, how about with one of Louisiana’s most famous delicacies? Laney King, the co-founder of The Crawfish App, says crawfish prices this holiday weekend are averaging $2.99 a pound for live crawfish and $5.50 a pound for boiled crawfish.
“We are thrilled that crawfish prices dropped 50¢ a pound this week. That’s out of the ordinary, this late in the season,” King said.
King says besides Memorial Day and graduations, there’s another big reason you should treat yourself to those tiny, tasty crustaceans this weekend.
“It also happens to be one of the final weeks of Crawfish Season 2026; so if you want to get one more fix in, this is the weekend to do it, while the prices are right,” King noted.
King says if you need that crawfish fix after this weekend and it cannot wait until after Mardi Gras next year, good luck.
“We’ll have a few stragglers going until Father’s Day, but I would say that is the last weekend you can really expect to have crawfish at your favorite spot,” King said.
Not to mention, once the calendar flips to June, the crawfish just doesn’t taste as good. Due to the much warmer weather, their shells get hard, and that results in much tougher meat.
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