Louisiana's Favorite Crustacean, Invasive In Michigan

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Thu, 08/17/2017 - 5:41am

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — News that Louisiana's favorite crustacean has turned up as an invasive species in Michigan prompted a local tourism agency to create a pop-up crawfish festival in Michigan. A crew including a chef who farms crawfish left Lafayette, Louisiana, on Thursday morning for a 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) drive north to Vicksburg — the first spot in Michigan where red swamp crawfish were found. On Saturday, they'll put on "Cray Day" with help from Michigan's Department of Natural Resources and a Cajun band from Michigan. Festival organizers were amused at first to think of crawfish as dangerous, but have learned what the critters can do outside their natural habitat.Read more on NewsOK.com

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Louisiana's Favorite Crustacean, Invasive In Michigan

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