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| Like many migrant workers from Mexico, Jose Palacios is collecting the last batch of crawfish harvested this year. |
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像来自墨西哥的其他移民一样，JosePalacios 正在收获今年最后一批小龙虾。 |
| "I am pulling out the traps now,"said Jose Palacios. "All I got was these two bags." |
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“我现在正在将圈套拉出来。我得到的只有这两袋。” |
| Crawfish is harvested in fresh water, like in this Louisiana rice field. It's a staple - but a seasonal one. |
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小龙虾在淡水中收获，例如路易斯安那州的这片稻田。小龙虾是这里的主要产品，但是季节性很强。 |
| When the crawfish season ends, around June, the traps are pulled out and the rice season begins. |
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小龙虾季节在六月份左右结束之后，这些圈套就被拉出来，随后稻米季节开始了。 |
| "Over the last 10 to 15 years, we produced anywhere between 70 and 100 million pounds of crawfish, |
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“过去的十到十五年，我们生产了7,000 万至1 亿磅小龙虾， |
| with a value of anywhere between $80 to 120 million," said Greg Lutz. |
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价值大约在80 万至1.2 亿美元之间。”Greg Lutz 说。 |
| Louisiana State University Professor Greg Lutz has studied crawfish species and the industry for 30 years. |
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路易斯安那州立大学教授Greg Lutz 研究小龙虾种类和该行业已经长达三十年代时间。 |
| The hope is that another type of crawfish - also grown in fresh water - |
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现在，另外一种也可以在淡水中生长的小龙虾有望延长生产季节， |
| can expand the season and help bail out Louisiana's Gulf coast seafood industry, crippled by the oil. |
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拯救路易斯安那港湾海岸受石油泄漏影响的海产品行业。 |
| "We are looking at trying to extend the crawfish season," he said. |
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“我们正在努力延长这种小龙虾的生长季节。 |
| "We are looking at different methods of growing them and we are looking at an alternative species that may be available in a different time of the year." |
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我们正在尝试不同的养殖方法，并寻找一种可以在一年中不同的季节生长的品种。” |
| Here at LSU's Aquaculture Research Station in Baton Rouge, in its ponds and tanks, Lutz is studying another native crawfish. |
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在巴吞鲁日市路易斯安那州立大学水产品养殖研究站，在水池和水箱中，Lutz 正在研究另外一种当地小龙虾。 |
| "This is that alternative species of crawfish," said Lutz. "They lay their eggs in the winter and early spring and they grow all through the summer, |
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“这是小龙虾的替代品种。他们在冬季和早春季节产卵，在整个夏季生长， |
| so the ideal would be to have crawfish just in time for football season. These are babies and this little species is called shrimp crawfish." |
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所以，可以及时提供足球赛季的小龙虾。这些是幼虾，这种比较小的品种叫做shrimp crawfish。” |
| When they're full grown, they can be up to ten centimeters long. |
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完全长成之后，这种龙虾可以长达10 厘米。 |
| "A female this size right here could have about 300 eggs, maybe 400," he said. |
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“这种大小的雌性龙虾可以产卵300 粒，或许400 粒。” |
| Lutz is also studying native plants that would be best suited as the shrimp crawfish's main source of food. |
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Lutz 也正在研究可以作为这种小龙虾主要食物来源的当地植物。 |
