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The Crawfish (Panulirus argus) is a nocturnal marine crustacean that is an important part of Bahamian culture. Common names include Caribbean spiny lobster, crawfish, rock lobster, Florida lobster, common spiny lobster, langouste blanche, langouste. They are found throughout tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. They occur in The Bahamas, Bermuda, the West Indies and South Florida. They shelter in crevices in the reef during the day and come out at night to forage in shallow water bank /seagrass areas feeding on detritus and invertebrates.
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Crawfish aquaculture is an off-season farming enterprise, because most of the labor is required during winter and early spring when demands from other farming activities are not as high. Additionally, marginal agricultural lands can often be converted to crawfish ponds.
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For over 14 years the Crawfish Festival has become a tradition to over thousands of festival goers annually. We combine the best Cajun, Zydeco, and New Orleans sounds of music, tons of fresh crawfish prepared Louisiana style and served by authentic Cajun chefs, giant food court, children’s area, dance floor, two stages and beach bars to create the largest Crawfish Festival outside of Louisiana, right here in Southern California.
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The Texas Crawfish & Music Festival runs the last two weekends in April. The festival is located in Preservation Park in historic Old Town Spring. Come and make a day of it, visit over 150 shops that are in the scenic streets of Old Town Spring, then venture out to the Crawfish Festival!
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Crawfish aquaculture imitates the natural life cycle of the crawfish as described above. Crawfish ponds are drained ("drawn-down") in the late spring to encourage mature crawfish to mate and burrow. A forage crop is planted in the dry pond while the crawfish are in their burrows with their eggs developing. The pond is re-flooded in the early fall when young-of-the-year crawfish have hatched and are ready to start foraging. Young crawfish forage on the decaying vegetation and reach a harvestable size by early spring. While peak spawning activity occurs in the spring, some spawning occurs in the fall and winter.
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Crawfish ponds are flat-bottomed, levee-type ponds in which soil is removed from the center of the pond to form two to four surrounding dams or levees. Water depth in crawfish ponds should be only 18 to 24 inches. The pond bottoms ideally should slope less than 6 inches from the shallowest to the deepest part of the pond. A drain must be installed in the deepest part of the pond. The drain must be designed to allow the water level to be regulated and of sufficient size to allow for complete draining over a period of 2 weeks. The outer levees must be cored with high quality clay and have a minimum base width of 9 feet and a freeboard (levee above water level) of 12 inches.
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