Mississippi crawfish abundant early, prices down
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi crawfish are plentiful early in the season and prices are down.
Keith Delcambre, owner of Bozo’s Seafood Market in Pascagoula, tells The Sun Herald his price per pound is $1.30 lower than it was when the season started in mid-November.
Live, they were $2.80 a pound at his store Tuesday. Boiled, they were $3.59.
Delcambre predicts the price will stay down through most of January, barring a major freeze, then jump at the end of the month with the demand that comes with the Super Bowl on Feb. 7, and Mardi Gras on Feb. 9.
He predicts with Easter coming early this year, crawfish will stay up in price through Lent and then go down after Easter.
