(Video) Crawfish are a favorite among consumers, and their market continues to grow. Getting crawfish to market is not as easy at it looks.Take a look at how crawfish farmers produce one of America's favorite crustaceans.
Teachers' resource manual, based on grade level expectations (GLE), using crawfish as the subject model to provide teaching materials for the subject areas of English, Math, Science and Social Studies from grades kindergarden through 8th grade, and high school science laboratory excercises.
This 1987 five-page article, written by Jay V. Huner and James E. Barr and published by the Louisiana Sea Grant Program, provides basic biological information on crawfishes, including taxonomy, anatomy, basic physiology, ecology and maintaining crawfish in aquaria for classroom activities. The material is suitable for high school-level biology.
This glossary was developed to provide a better understanding of many of the terms used in the crawfish production manual. This document is the Glossary in the Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual.
This document is Chapter 2 in the Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual. The chapter covers basic biology and life cycles of red swamp crawfish and white river crawfish, burrow ecology, population dynamics and population structure, molting, and nutrition and feeding habits of crawfish.
This article discusses the life history and biology of the Procambarid crawfishes, the red swamp crawfish and white river crawfish.