LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – During Lent, as most of you know, you are not allowed to eat meat on Friday.

So, down here in Louisiana, we turn to our crawfish.

“It’s Lent so that’s what everybody does here in Louisiana,” said resident Sean Cortez.

With residents increasing their crawfish intake, crawfish sales increased as well.

Even more so on Good Friday.

“There’s probably 1500 people who have come through here today,” said the owner of Chez Francios Seafood Andre Leger.

The stores were packed with people purchasing sacks of the mudbugs.

When it comes to the price, it all depends on the size of crawfish you want on your dinner plate.

“We’ve been charging by the sack,” said Leger, “We’ve been selling the small crawfish for $35, the medium for $65 and the large for $85.”

Since Good Friday is the last Friday of Lent, business was busier than usual.

“People were coming in for boil crawfish and then they had all these people picking up their live,” he said, “There was probably 75, 85 people in line at one time just waiting.”

Cortez explains that eating crawfish on Good Friday has been and always will be part of the Louisiana culture.

“Family getting together, boiling crawfish, it’s a tradition. It’s God’s day.”

As of now, crawfish farmers are making an average of $1.25 per pound.

However, that number does depend on the size of the crawfish