A class action certification ruling has been upheld for crawfish farmers seeking damages for the loss of their crawfish which they claim were killed by ICON, a pesticide made by Aventis. This ruling allows the crawfish farmers to proceed with their case which alleges that the pesticide ICON (Fipronil) devastated Louisiana's 2000 and 2001 crawfish crop after its introduction on the rice seed in 1999. Louisiana's crawfish production fell from 41 million pounds to 16 million pounds in 2000.
The purpose of ICON is to kill the water weevil, enemy of the rice crop, however farmers and experts have testified at trial that it also kills crawfish. The crawfish farmers testified unanimously that once their fields were contaminated by ICON, there was a wide-spread crawfish kill.
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