Crawfish trap design and construction

In recent years, annual harvests of 20 to 40 million pounds (9,000 to 18,000 MT) of wild crawfish and 60 to 70 million pounds (27,000 to 32,000 MT) of farmed crawfish have been typical in Louisiana. Virtually all this production is accomplished with baited wire-mesh traps. Baited traps are also the most common method of harvesting crawfish in most other parts of the world. Two basic wire-mesh trap designs have become standards in Louisiana’s wild and farmed crawfish industries. Pillow traps (Fig. 1)