Generally, the crawfish season in Louisiana runs from mid-January through early-July for crawfish caught in the wild, with the peak months being March, April and May. Crawfish from farms are available over a longer period of the year. In some years, such as 2011, high water levels in the Mississippi River, Red River and Atchafalaya River impact the timing, and overall production, of the season. 2014 featured an extremely cold winter which affected crawfish harvests. The unseasonably cold weather drove the crawfish deep, and they stopped feeding and entering crawfish traps.
We thoroughly enjoyed the 2014 crawfish season, and boiled those tasty crustaceans several times. Now we are starting to look forward to the 2015 crawfish season! Initial reports for the 2015 crawfish season are encouraging, with live crawfish being delivered as early as December of 2014. It’s January of 2015, and time for Super Bowl and Mardi Gras, and maybe some crawfish?