Fuel, feed costs crippling US catfish industry

Full story: Newsday

Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head -- another farmer scrambling to stay solvent has drained the pond and will till it for row crops.

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jerryf01

Angeles, Philippines

Very expensive food for US raised catfish, here in SE Asia, they just shove in chicken manure, cheap food.
Needless to say, I don't eat farm raised fish.

Balto

Roosevelt, NY

I once saw a 90-pound Mississippi River "mud cat" landed. The whiskers were 3-feet long.

The bar-b-que was a beauty but I'm still amazed. That was a long time ago but I'll never forget that fish.

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