Louisiana Senator Pushes Back Against Petition to List Crawfish as 'Injurious'
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., pushed back against a September petition by the Center for Invasive Species Prevention (CISP) for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to add Louisiana’s most populous crawfish, procambarus clarkii (the red swamp crawfish), to the…
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“injurious wildlife” list. Production of the crawfish through the last 25 years has grown from 61.1 million pounds to 127.5 pounds per year, Vitter said in a Dec. 2 letter to FWS Director Daniel Ashe (here). “Based on those facts, CISP’s claim that the red swamp crawfish has no essential economic benefit is laughable,” Vitter wrote. “Any consideration of their petition to list the red swamp crawfish as injurious and to place it on the FWS list of injurious wildlife should immediately cease.”