Restaurant Owners Are Breathing a Sigh of Relief This Crawfish Season 

By January 19, BB’s, a Houston-area restaurant chain, was already selling boiled crawfish. For connoisseurs who know that the season peaks around the beginning of spring, it sounds a bit too soon to be eating mudbugs. But founder and CEO Brooks Bassler says the crawfish are unusually tasty for this early in the season.That’s good news for an industry that’s been looking more like famine than feast in recent years. The 2024 harvest was particularly bad due to a 2023 drought causing low supply and high prices. Thankfully, in 2025, the yield was much improved. This year, things are on track to remain steady, and farmers and restaurateurs are cautiously optimistic.Dan Meaux, owner of the Crawfish Shack in Crosby, a suburb northeast of Houston, says…

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