Why learn how to catch crawfish? Well, whether you call them crawdads, crayfish, or mudbugs, crawfish are one of the most lethal live bait you can put on a fishing hook. Any decent smallmouth angler ...

Fields of soy and open land flash by on rural Louisiana Highway 167 leading to Ville Platte. Like most two-lane highways in south Louisiana, there is a highly regarded boudin shop at an intersection ...

After countless summers pulling up traps on his family farm, which harvests 300,000 pounds of crawfish a day, David Vercher knows full well how unforgiving the work can be. Crawfishers operate boats ...

Harvesting crawfish is hard work, but an LSU senior from Crowley is part of a team that has designed a robotic arm that helps. Crawfish harvesting is a way of life that goes back to the late 1800s in ...

ATCHAFALAYA BASIN — Things still aren't looking too good for crawfishermen out on the Basin. KATC spent some time out in the swamp with Basin crawfisherman Ben Bienvenu to get a better look at what he ...

It may not be long before our beloved crawfish are handled by robots before they meet the pot. Six engineering students at Louisiana State University have built a robotic arm to help crawfish farmers ...