SealLine Baja Dry Bag 20 (Green)
SealLine Baja Dry Bag 20 (Green)
- Roll-Down Dry Seal Closure
- 19 ounce Vinyl Side
- Heavy Duty 30 ounce Vinyl Bottom
- Volume: 1170 cu. in./19 liters
- Size: 9 in. dia. x 16/23 x 41 cm
Proven on rivers, lakes, and oceans around the world, Baja Bags are versatile and durable. Made with 19 oz. vinyl sides and a heavy-duty 30 oz. bottom, they can withstand just about any abuse Mother Nature, or your crew, can dish out. Baja Bags close with our Dry Seal roll-down closure and have an attached D-ring for securing inside a raft or on top of a luggage rack.
List Price: $ 22.95
Price: $ 22.95
Production is Boiling at Fruge Aquafarms! Bumper Crawfish Crop Predicted for 2012.
Branch, LA (PRWEB) February 15, 2012
The groundhog may have seen his shadow and predicted six extra weeks of winter, but dont tell that to south Louisianas crawfish population. Mild temperatures, timely rains and ideal water conditions have resulted in a perfect storm of plentiful crawfish that even Punxsutawney Phil couldnt have predicted.
For 2012, everything Im seeing right now indicates were lined up for a high production year, said Mark Fruge, co-owner of Fruge Aquafarms in Branch, located about 15 miles from Lafayette. With these mild temperatures, the crawfish are ahead of schedule on their rate of growth and production levels because theyve been so active. The industry as a whole is probably producing double where wed normally be right now.
And while the calendar says the first day of spring is still almost six weeks away, the tasty crustaceans raised in rice fields and ponds throughout Cajun Country are making the most of the mild, wet conditions.
The temperatures that weve been experiencing are like March temperatures, so the crawfish in the field are reacting as though its March, Fruge said. Industry-wide, the people Ive spoken with are all having similar outcomes. Everyone is doing well production-wise, and we should see strong poundage-per-acre production numbers.
That means good news for consumers, who could see reduced prices compared to recent years when below-average rainfall negatively affected production.
It should be a great year with abundant and affordable crawfish, said Mike Fruge, Marks older brother and fellow co-owner of Fruge AquaFarms. Im predicting a very high volume season. The quality right now couldnt be better, and its only going to improve as we head into the spring.
The Fruge Difference
Over the past 26 years, the Fruge brothers have seen their small 20-acre crawfish farm expand into a major full-service seafood company covering major markets in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Three times each week during crawfish season, their trucks make the 400-mile trip to the companys Grand Prairie, Texas Distribution Center in the Dallas Metroplex with up to 10 tons of crawfish onboard.
Even though theyre metropolitan cities located hundred of miles from south Louisiana, the markets are crawfish savvy. The restaurants we service expect large, fresh, high-quality crawfish, and thats exactly what we provide, said Richard Hotard, Fruges Sales Manager.
We were fishermen before we were distributors, so we know this business like very few others. And we understand how vitally important every order is for our customers. So we grow em, we catch em, and we deliver em. And weve done it successfully for more than 20 years.
Those three factors highlight the Fruges model for success, and set them apart from other distributors, wholesalers and crawfish farmers.
Were different and better because we control all three key phases of getting the crawfish to market, Mike explained. We grow them ourselves, we operate a wholesale dock and we distribute them. We control the entire process, which is crucial with a highly perishable crop like crawfish that is subject to supply issues. We simply have a lot more flexibility to meet our customers needs than someone who only controls one phase.
Crawfish Over a Bed of Rice
The groundwork for this years bumper crawfish crop was actually laid last March, when Mark and his crew planted rice on about half of the farms 2,400 acres. (In addition to the crawfish crop, the farm produces 8,000,000 pounds of rice annually.)
When the rice crop grows tall enough to provide shade to cool the water, typically in May, the fields are flooded and mature crawfish are seeded into the ponds.
After the seeding is complete, we simply manage the fields for rice production and we usually release the water in late June or early July, said Mark, who readily admits to enjoying life in the fields much more than sitting behind a desk. Rice is harvested in August. By that time, the crawfish have burrowed deep into the ground and go into hibernation during the heat of summer.
After the rice harvest, maintenance work is performed in the fields to repair any levees damaged either by wildlife or equipment. The ponds are flooded again in late September or early October to create prime crawfish habitat.
When we flood, the stubble is regenerating and growing, so the female crawfish come out with the hatchlings on their tail and begin feeding on the rice, Mark said. At that point, the young crawfish are about the size of ants. It typically takes about three months for the crawfish to grow to marketable size.
Crawfish harvesting begins around the first of the year and normally goes through the 4th of July. At that point, the rice harvest is right around the corner, and the process starts all over.
In late May, the crawfish harvest usually starts to decline. At that point the fields are getting barren because the crawfish have consumed almost all of the available food source, he said. When the water temperature gets too high, it becomes lethal to the crawfish and they can actually start dying in the fields. So when we start getting 90 degree days, the harvest typically begins to go down.
And although the winter has been unusually mild so far, Mark knows that could change – quickly.
You just never know what Mother Nature has in store, he said. If we get a cold snap, even though the crawfish have grown and are much more advanced right now, theyll still shut down and go dormant if the water temperature drops below 50 degrees. They dont burrow again, but they go to the bottom of the field and get under the stubble and kind of just sit in the mud. It just stops their activity so they quit feeding. At that point, production becomes much more of a challenge.
A Day on the Farm
At the height of harvest season every spring, Fruge Aquafarms employs eight to ten fishermen who harvest crawfish every morning. With about ten traps per acre and each fisherman responsible for harvesting 100-150 acres, they each empty, re-bait and reset about 1,000 traps every day.
At the peak of the season, you try to average about one pound per trap per day, Mark said. Under our model, our Holy Grail if you will, is to produce 1,000 pounds per acre throughout the course of the season.
Fisherman set out every morning about 7 a.m. with enough bait and gasoline to finish their run of traps. Each man uses a 14-foot aluminum boat outfitted with a large paddlewheel in the back that actually rolls over the pond bottom and propels the boat forward. A trap is picked up and emptied onto a sorting table, then re-baited and set down when the boat arrives at the next trap.
In a process where the boat never stops moving, the fishermen steer the boat with foot pedals for hands-free operation, and the crawfish go from a sorting tray to a sack before making their way to the farms dock in the early afternoon. Theyre weighed in, and each mans production is entered into the catch register so every fields production can be monitored.
We use a pyramid-style trap with three funnels about four inches from the bottom, Mark said. The crawfish enter to eat the bait fish. Its made of mesh, so the smaller ones will eat and pass through the wire. The ones that are marketable size stay in the trap because of the diameter of the wire.
After the crew eats lunch, the crawfish are washed and graded into three sizes. Thats where coordination between sales and production is crucial: its vital to have enough crawfish on-hand to fill customers orders, but its also critical not too have harvested too many. With the crustaceans relatively short shelf life, mistakes can be costly.
Harvest-wise, we try to plan two to three days in t
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Destin, FL (PRWEB) January 15, 2012
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