Pond verses Wild Crawfish

[BananaTom]

Is there a difference today?

As I believe:

Many years ago, there were only wild crawfish, they were small and brown.

Then Bell River were introduced into the ponds, large and red.

I now think the two have cross bred into what we see today.

Is this correct?

Or is the wild different from the pond?

[swamp snorkler]

Wild taste better........... LSU does extensive research and breeding on crawfish and breeds some of the pond crawfish (hybrids) now. I read an article where they were trying to breed a crawfish that would be harvestable year round and have more tail meat.

Did you know that crawfish tail meat has more fiber and protein than chicken breast and is lower in fat and caleries than chicken breast?

[Duck Butter]

They were once all the same Red Swamp Crawfish, now 'they' may be trying to do some genetic work with the farm raised but not sure about hybrids. 'They' would have to breed the red swamps with another to produce a hybrid and not sure what the other would be.

There are 35 species of crawfish in Louisiana, do you know how many species are edible?

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

Wild taste better........... LSU does extensive research and breeding on crawfish and breeds some of the pond crawfish (hybrids) now. I read an article where they were trying to breed a crawfish that would be harvestable year round and have more tail meat.

Did you know that crawfish tail meat has more fiber and protein than chicken breast and is lower in fat and caleries than chicken breast?

I didn't know that. That is probably straight meat with no fat or seasoning. I don't think eating 5 lbs of boiled crawfish is the healthiest of diets though with all that sodium and other good stuff

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

I didn't know that. That is probably straight meat with no fat or seasoning. I don't think eating 5 lbs of boiled crawfish is the healthiest of diets though with all that sodium and other good stuff

You right that probably scalded, peeled, rinse the fat off and then test them. They not getting them readings out of a connass' pot.

[Smalls]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

They were once all the same Red Swamp Crawfish, now 'they' may be trying to do some genetic work with the farm raised but not sure about hybrids. 'They' would have to breed the red swamps with another to produce a hybrid and not sure what the other would be.

There are 35 species of crawfish in Louisiana, do you know how many species are edible?

Some of them I don't think you can eat simply because they are threatened or endangered . Calcasieu Painted is my favorite, beautiful little sucker. There is a ton of them though.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Smalls

Some of them I don't think you can eat simply because they are threatened or endangered . Calcasieu Painted is my favorite, beautiful little sucker. There is a ton of them though.

The answer is ALL of them. Somebody told me that the other day and it was just as non funny as it was just now

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

You right that probably scalded, peeled, rinse the fat off and then test them. They not getting them readings out of a connass' pot.

Unflavored crawfish tails yuck

[Smalls]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

The answer is ALL of them. Somebody told me that the other day and it was just as non funny as it was just now

lmao, musta been a cajun. There ain't a mudbug in the world a cajun won't eat. Them little suckers are too damn small to fuss with in my opinion. Haven't seen too many wild crawfish that weren't Swamp Reds that are big enough to eat. Then again, most of the wild one's I've seen are in ditches.......

[DA COVE]

Anybody know where I can get some tame crawfish???

[Goooh]

Originally Posted by DA COVE

Anybody know where I can get some tame crawfish???

PETsMART, gotta be there when the shipments come in because they get bought up quicker than .22LR

[SULPHITE]

I say we ban assault crawfish

[CajunSaint]

Originally Posted by SULPHITE

I say we ban assault crawfish

X2

[southern151]

Originally Posted by SULPHITE

I say we ban assault crawfish

Boiled a couple of drone crawfish to the point of short circuit the other day. Helluva light show they put on at 212 deg!

[Marshrat]

Originally Posted by BananaTom

Is there a difference today?

As I believe:

Many years ago, there were only wild crawfish, they were small and brown.

Then Bell River were introduced into the ponds, large and red.

I now think the two have cross bred into what we see today.

Is this correct?

Or is the wild different from the pond?

The crawfish we catch in our marsh are brownish green and I find they are better tasting than the rice field crawfish because there isn't the large concentration of chemicals that is put on the marsh like in the rice fields.

My opinion is this on the "farm raised". The crawfish were there naturally so technically they are wild. It isn't like a cow or hog that is raised domestically. The only thing about the rice field crawfish is that farmers transfer crawfish from one field to the other to help yields the following year. Plus the farmer doesn't need to buy a commercial fishing license or fill out trip ticket information like the crawfisherman that fish the marshes and swamps.


Warren

[DA COVE]

Yea, they are there naturally. But most are the smaller hard red craws. A lot of the farmer buy basin crawfish to seed there ponds for a few years, then they start cross seeding between fields to keep the size up. As for as chems in the fields, that's not an issue as it once was. A lot of the farmers shut down the rice and soys To focus on crawfish, so for the last few years most fields have only seen crawfish.

[Vermillionaire]

Pond raised are better tasting and cleaner, in my opinion.