An aquaculture researcher at Northwestern State University says she’s getting major results — and more robust mudbugs — by lighting the ponds at night.
Could bigger, more bountiful harvests from crawfish ponds be a matter of light? An aquaculture researcher at Northwestern State University says she’s getting major results — and more robust mudbugs — by lighting the ponds at night, according to an article in San Francisco Gate.
Julie Delabbio, director of NSU’s Aquaculture Research Center, says the lights not only increase the number of crawfish yielded but the individual size of the crawfish. “Just getting more crawfish isn’t necessarily a good thing if you’re getting a lot of little crawfish,” Delabbio tells SFG, detailing the dramatic results of placing a dozen underwater lights per quarter-acre of pond, which is yielding up to two-thirds more pounds of crawfish than unlit ponds.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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