FISHING FOR A FEAST Louisiana seafood boil Get to Know Louisiana’s Seafood Fun Facts The Fests Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival, Morgan City Delcambre Shrimp Festival, Delcambre Find it Here Voleo’s, Lafitte Craws, Claws & Tails, Vidalia Crawfish Town USA, Henderson Peck’s Seafood, Slidell Boudreau & Thibodeau’s Cajun Cookin’, Houma Casamento’s Restaurant, New Orleans Spahr’s Seafood, Des Allemands Trapp’s, West Monroe ACME Oyster House, New Orleans Shucks!, Abbeville Seafood Palace, Lake Charles Drusilla Seafood Restaurant, Baton Rouge Fiery Crab, Alexandria Middendorf’s, Akers Regatta Seafood & Steakhouse, Lake Arthur Mama’s Oyster House, Natchitoches SHRIMP Louisiana leads all other states in shrimp landings (catches), with 102.5 million pounds of the crustaceans caught here annually. Crawfish Fin Fish All of the crawfish grown in the U.S. — down to the last tail — is harvested in Louisiana. Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, Breaux Bridge Louisiana Crawfish Festival, Chalmette Almost half the catfish consumed in the U.S. comes from Louisiana, along with massive harvests of red snapper, tuna and drum. Most Gulf of Mexico oysters come from Louisiana waters, many of which are flown to fine dining restaurants throughout the U.S. Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival, Belle Chasse Louisiana Catfish Festival, Des Allemands Oysters Blue Crab alligator Amite Oyster Festival, Amite New Orleans Oyster Festival, New Orleans Louisiana produces more than a quarter of all of these crustaceans that Americans consume. St. Tammany Crab Festival, Slidell Holly Beach Crab Festival, Cameron Louisiana has the nation’s highest alligator population, and is home to dozens of farms sustainably harvesting them. Alligator Festival, Luling Mudbug Madness, Shreveport Score a great catch at LouisianaSeafood.com ! 37 #OnlyLouisiana @LouisianaTravel
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