As spring rolls around, stores around Louisiana will be showing a welcome sight: fresh and boiled crawfish for sale. For decades, Louisiana farmers have been producing and selling crawfish using practices that have worked consistently throughout their lives. But as droughts and diseases become more common, there is now a need for more robust research into management systems.
Kaelyn Fogelman, a recently hired professor of aquaculture at the LSU AgCenter, hopes to facilitate new research into not only crawfish management, but into the entire aquaculture program.
“I came to LSU to do aquaculture and have a world-class aquaculture program,” Fogelman said. “I knew that when I took my permanent professor position that that’s where I wanted to be forever. I wanted to be at a university with a program that wanted to grow and had the opportunity to do that.”
