How a Louisiana crawfish company harvests 60,000 pounds a day

• Parish Seafood Wholesale processes 4 million pounds of crawfish every year.
• Founder Madison McIntyre told Business Insider the company made $500,000 in 2022.
• Crawfish generate $300 million a year for Louisiana's economy.

Louisiana produces 90% of the crawfish found in the United States. Most farmed crawfish come from rice fields in one 35-square-mile area near Welsh, Louisiana.

The industry is fairly new, only entering the mainstream in the 1980s as rice farmers began experimenting with cultivating crawfish in their fields.