Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Macias picks up crawfish traps while harvesting the catch at Bayou Best Crawfish Farm in Sour Lake, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026.

KAPLAN, La. – Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones.

Whatever you know them as - crawfish, crayfish or the more colorful "mudbug" - the familiar crustaceans found at seafood boils allow sea farmers a relatively short harvesting season can be made or ...