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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>Best Management Practices for Minimizing Impacts of White Spot Syndrome Virus in Crawfish Production – May 2007</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) has been confirmed for the first time in Louisiana crawfish. Following are best management practices to use to minimize the impact of the virus. These BMPs have been developed by the LSU AgCenter. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Estimated Louisiana Crawfish Harvest Statistics, 1978 through 2011</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 2011.  Information source: 1978 through 2011 Louisiana Summary: Agriculture and Natural Resources - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Louisiana Crawfish Industry Wholesale Prices, 1998-2011</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 2011. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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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>
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      <title>Crawfish in the Classroom</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This 1987 five-page article, written by Jay V. Huner and James E. Barr and  published by the Louisiana Sea Grant Program, provides basic biological information on crawfishes, including taxonomy, anatomy, basic physiology, ecology and maintaining crawfish in aquaria for classroom activities.  The material is suitable for high school-level biology. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish News June 2012 (Vol 5, No 3)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:00:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This newsletter contains information on draining ponds, pond renovation, selecting and planting forages for crawfish, liming crawfish ponds, and the potential effects of using slightly salty water on crawfish forage crops. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish News, May 2010 (Vol 3, No 3)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 19:22:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Crawfish News May 2011 (Vol 4, No 3)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:23:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <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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      <title>Reducing Crawfish Pumping Costs</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:15:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Crawfish News, May 2008 (Vol 1, No 3)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[May 2008 Crawfish News.  This newsletter provides information on forage planting, liming crawfish ponds, and stocking new, existing, and recently renovated ponds. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>How to Gain an Edge with Your Crawfish Buyer</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:52:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Virtually all crawfish sold by farmers and fishermen are alive.  This market necessitates that crawfish remain alive until cooked, which may require several days or longer in some cases. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawifsh News April 2012 (Vol 5, No 2)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:35:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This newsletter covers stocking recommendations for crawfish, controlling white river crawfish in ponds, recommendations on when to stop trapping, and the estimated 2011 farm-raised and wild crawfish harvest in Louisiana. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Louisiana Irrigation:  Reducing Crawfish Pumping Costs</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:55:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Enjoying Louisiana Crawfish</title>
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      <dc:creator>CGautreaux@agcenter.lsu.edu (Craig Gautreaux)</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:18:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Practical Management Tools To Produce Big Crawfish</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:49:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>GLutz@agcenter.lsu.edu (C. Greg Lutz)</dc:creator>
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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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      <dc:creator>GLutz@agcenter.lsu.edu (C. Greg Lutz)</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[This newsletter discusses proper procedures for monitoring your crawfish population with a dip net, projecting crawfish growth to harvest size based on emergence of young juveniles from burrows, recommendations on trap density and spacing for low-density and high-density populations, considerations to consider in early trapping and the importance of keeping good production records. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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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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      <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 Production Systems</title>
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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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      <title>Other Crawfish Management Considerations</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Color Variations in the Red Swamp Crawfish</title>
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      <title>Improved Crawfish Trap Design Might Mean Fewer Traps Needed</title>
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      <title>Crawfish News July 2012 (Vol 5, No 4)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:20:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This newsletter discusses determining a cash land rent for farm-raised crawfish production  and controlling army worms in late planted crawfish forage crops. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>GLutz@agcenter.lsu.edu (C. Greg Lutz)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Crawfish Connection - November 1, 2007</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Letter containing information about 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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      <title>Crawifsh News September/October 2012 (Vol 5, No 5)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:46:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This newsletter discusses the management of water for fall flood-up, managing excess water from Hurricane Isaac, and understanding oxygen consumption in crawfish ponds. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Determining Cash Rental Rates for Agricultural Land</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:21:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This publication explains three potential methods to determine cash rental rates for landowners and tenants, as well as items to be included in a land rental agreement.  (PDF format only) - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>KMGuidry@agcenter.lsu.edu (Kurt M. Guidry)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Crawfish Production: Pond Construction and Water Requirements</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:28:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This Southern Regional Aquaculture Center fact sheet discusses pond design, layout and construction  for crawfish  monocropping and rotational production systems as well as water requirements for farming crawfish, including important water quality parameters, their desired levels and water consumption budgets. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Crawfish Connection - September 17, 2007</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:18:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Letter containing information on the affects of Hurricane Humberto on crawfish ponds and an announcement for the Louisiana Crawfish Farmers Association annual membership meeting. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>GLutz@agcenter.lsu.edu (C. Greg Lutz)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Louisiana Commercial Crawfish Harvesters Report</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:52:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This report is a survey of Louisiana wild commercial crawfish license holders conducted in 2010 to determine their preferences and perspectivesof actual and hypothetical regulations and management practices of the wild commercial crawfish fishery in Louisiana. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Health Benefits of Seafood</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:19:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Including seafood as part of an overall balanced diet can provide many health benefits.  This publication includes tips on selecting, storing and using seafood. (PDF Format Only) - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>TCrawford@agcenter.lsu.edu (Terri L. Crawford)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Crawfish Culture: A Louisiana Aquaculture Success Story</title>
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      <dc:creator>RMcClain@agcenter.lsu.edu (W. Ray McClain)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Crawfish News, July 2008 (Vol 1, No 4)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:10:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <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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      <dc:creator>MShirley@agcenter.lsu.edu (Mark G. Shirley)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Other Management Considerations</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:41:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <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>Measuring Oxygen in Crawfish Ponds</title>
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      <title>Water Exchanges in Crawfish Production: Avoiding Too Much of a Good Thing</title>
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      <title>Crawfish News March 2012 (Vol 5, No 1)</title>
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      <title>Crawfish News, April 2010 (Vol 3, No 2)</title>
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      <title>Crawfish News, March 2008 (Vol 1, No 2)</title>
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      <title>Projected Costs and Returns for Crawfish Production in Louisiana, 2012</title>
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      <title>Crawfish News March 2011 (Vol 4, No 2)</title>
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      <title>Crawfish News, March 09 (Vol 2, No 2)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:16:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:59:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Should I Lime My Crawfish Ponds?</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:22:18 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[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>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>Crawfish News, September 2008 (Vol 1, No 5)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Crawfish News September 2010 (Vol 3, No 6)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:05:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Relaying: An Intercropping Approach to the Co-culture of Crawfish and Rice (1997)</title>
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      <dc:creator>RMcClain@agcenter.lsu.edu (W. Ray McClain)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Crawfish News Summer 2010 (Vol 3, No 5)</title>
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      <title>Crawfish Environmental Best Management Practices</title>
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      <title>Crawfish Production and Marketing Record Keeping System</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>Crawfish News, Nov 2008 (Vol 1, No 6)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:29:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This newsletter covers oxygen demand in crawfish ponds, dip-net sampling of crawfish populations, an introduction to crawfish population dynamics, and trap density and spacing recommendations. - 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>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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      <title>Rains from Hurricane Gustav cause problems for Louisiana crawfish</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:50:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>GLutz@agcenter.lsu.edu (C. Greg Lutz)</dc:creator>
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