...Donni Choate stood before a weathered wood table inside a white metal shed in the southwestern Louisiana town of Forked Island, visibly pleased that his world had returned to its natural order.

He was surrounded by crawfish, not just in the bags and crates cluttering the shed’s floor but in the flooded rice fields surrounding his makeshift crawfish-processing operation.

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By Brett Anderson
The Times-Picayune