Congressman Carter Urges Governor Landry to Help Crawfish Industry

NEW ORLEANS, L.A. – On Tuesday, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-La.) wrote Governor Jeff Landry asking him to pursue Small Business Administration (SBA) Economic Injury Disaster Loans for Louisiana’s crawfish farmers as a direct response to Congressman Carter’s February 22 letter to Small Business Administration Administrator Guzman requesting assistance for businesses in need.

To access EIDL loans a business must be in a declared disaster area. Congressman Carter requests that Governor Landry issue a statewide disaster declaration in the crawfish aquaculture industry, including the businesses that service the industry and depend on the product the industry produces due to unprecedented drought.

“Louisianians know that the industry is broader than the farmers who raise crawfish. Our crawfish processors, restaurants, grocery stores, and boilers are also facing trying economic times. Some of these are amongst the State’s most vulnerable small businesses. For example, an entire industry exists around planning and servicing crawfish boils during the spring. Currently, high prices have decimated this industry when they can obtain crawfish at all. For many of these boilers their entire year’s worth of revenue has been wiped out,” Congressman Carter wrote.

Read the full letter here.

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