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      <title>Crawfish Production Manual</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:39:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Practical Management Tools To Produce Big Crawfish</title>
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      <title>Crawfish Aquaculture - Marketing</title>
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      <title>Crawfish News January 2011 (Vol 4, No 1)</title>
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      <title>Should I Lime My Crawfish Ponds?</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:17:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This document is Chapter 8 in the Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual. The chapter discusses factors affecting crawfish catch and size of crawfish at harvest, trap types, baits, baiting strategies, trapping strategies and harvesting machinery. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish Aquaculture Terminology</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:06:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This document is Chapter 6 in the Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual. The chapter discusses factors to consider when stocking crawfish including species and size of crawfish, suggested months of stocking, handling crawfish broodstock, stocking rates, sex ratio and condition of broostock, and post-stocking recommendations. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The challenge farmers face this season is to produce a crawfish crop as inexpensively as possible. When to flood, how deep to flood and managing water quality must all be considered so as to pump as little as possible. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>MShirley@agcenter.lsu.edu (Mark G. Shirley)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Improved Crawfish Trap Design Might Mean Fewer Traps Needed</title>
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      <title>Color Variations in the Red Swamp Crawfish</title>
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      <title>Crawfish Biology</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:44:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This document is Chapter 2 in the Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual. The chapter covers basic biology and life cycles of red swamp crawfish and white river crawfish, burrow ecology, population dynamics and population structure, molting, and nutrition and feeding habits of crawfish. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish News November 2010 (Vol 3, No 7)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:20:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This newsletter addresses the November 10 crawfish referendum to renew the assessment on crawfish artificial bait and sacks (bags), trap spacing guidelines, dip net sampling of juvenile crawfish for population assessment, the importance of secondary juvenile crawfish recruitment to overall crawfish yield, and a frequently asked question on the relationship between trap mesh and size of crawfish harvested. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Procambarid Crawfish: Life History and Biology</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:38:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RMcClain@agcenter.lsu.edu (W. Ray McClain)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Louisiana Commercial Crawfish Harvesters Report</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is an Excel spreadsheet-based record keeping system that allows crawfish producers to track production, sales and expense data throughout the production year. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) Has Been Confirmed In Louisiana Crawfish</title>
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      <title>White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) Sampling Results</title>
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      <title>Other Management Considerations</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This chapter (Chapter 9) from the Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual discusses other management considerations in commercial crawfish farming, including pond flood-up, population management, supplemental feeding, managing ponds for larger crawfish, diseases, predators, nuisance wildlife, control methods and deveoping your business. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish Production: Production Systems and Forages</title>
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      <title>Best Management Practices for Minimizing Impacts of White Spot Syndrome Virus in Crawfish Production – May 2007</title>
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      <title>Crawfish Lesson Plan K-8th, High School Lab</title>
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      <title>Louisiana Crawfish Industry Wholesale Prices, 2000-2010</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This table provides industry statistics, including dock-side price per pound,  for Louisiana farm-raised and wild crawfish.   Source of statistics is the Louisiana Summary, Agriculture & Natural Resources, years 2000 through 2010. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Estimated Louisiana Crawfish Harvest Statistics, 1978 through 2010</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This document presents estimated crawfish harvest production statistics in Louisiana from Aquaculture and the Wild Crop from 1978 through 2010.  Information source: 1978 through 2010 Louisiana Summary: Agriculture and Natural Resources - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>RRomaire@agcenter.lsu.edu (Robert P. Romaire)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Forages and Forage Management</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:53:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This document is Chapter 5 in the Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual. The chapter discusses forage selection and management recommendations for monocropping and rotational cropping systems, the benefits and limitations of cultivated and noncultivated forages, recommended planting dates and post-flood management of the forage crop. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish Production: Water Quality and Management</title>
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      <title>Crawfish Production Systems</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This document is Chapter 3 in the Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual. The chapter discusses the differences between crawfish monocropping systems and crop rotational systems, including rice-crawfish-rice and rice-crawfish-fallow (or rice-crawfish-soybean) systems. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Pond Location, Design And Construction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This document is Chapter 4 in the Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual. The chapter discusses selecting an appropriate pond location, design and construction of  crawfish ponds, and USDA-NRCS best management practices for crawfish pond construction. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish News, July 2008 (Vol 1, No 4)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[July 2008. This newsletter has information on late-summer planting and management of crawfish forage crops, control measures for fall army worms, a brief overview on crawfish reproduction and an annoucement for an upcoming survey on crawfish production economics. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish Pond Aerator</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A device used to blow air into a pond to create movement of the water. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Measuring Oxygen in Crawfish Ponds</title>
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      <title>Crawfish News May 2011 (Vol 4, No 3)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This newsletter provides recommendations on stocking crawfish and planting forages in preparation for the 2011-2012 crawfish farming season. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>RRomaire@agcenter.lsu.edu (Robert P. Romaire)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Best Management Practices in Crawfish Production - Good for Producers and Coastal Wetlands</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:46:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This article discusses 10 best management practices that have been identified to minimize the potential impact of crawfish pond effluents (tailwater) on the environment. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Water Exchanges in Crawfish Production: Avoiding Too Much of a Good Thing</title>
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      <title>Crawfish in the Classroom</title>
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      <title>Projected Costs and Returns for Crawfish Production in Louisiana, 2011</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report presents estimates of projected costs of producing crawfish in Louisiana for the 2011 season. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish News, Nov 2008 (Vol 1, No 6)</title>
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      <title>Effects of Food Limitations On Crawfish Reproduction</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:35:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RMcClain@agcenter.lsu.edu (W. Ray McClain)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Crawfish Trap Design and Construction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article describes materials and techniques for the construction of   pillow traps and pyramid traps used to harvest crawfish in Louisiana's commercial crawfish  industry - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>GLutz@agcenter.lsu.edu (C. Greg Lutz)</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Letter containing information managing water quality and the spacing of traps in the field. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>RDJohnson@agcenter.lsu.edu (Richard D. Johnson)</dc:creator>
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      <dc:creator>RDJohnson@agcenter.lsu.edu (Richard D. Johnson)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Stocking Crawfish Ponds: 2005 Recommendations</title>
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      <dc:creator>MShirley@agcenter.lsu.edu (Mark G. Shirley)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Crawfish News June 2010 (Vol 3, No 4)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:47:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RRomaire@agcenter.lsu.edu (Robert P. Romaire)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Projected Costs and Returns for Crawfish Production in Louisiana, 2010</title>
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      <dc:creator>RBoucher@agcenter.lsu.edu (Robert W. Boucher)</dc:creator>
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      <title>How to Gain an Edge with Your Crawfish Buyer</title>
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      <dc:creator>RMcClain@agcenter.lsu.edu (W. Ray McClain)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Rains from Hurricane Gustav cause problems for Louisiana crawfish</title>
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