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Switching to catfish makes sound financial sense. The fish require less care than crops and bring their growers a fatter price per pound (400 to 500 live weight) than beef, pork or poultry. One of the first to discover the market was Edgar Farmer, 57, who stocked a pond ten years ago with a dozen "channel cats" that he had caught with a bamboo pole in the Arkansas River. Last year Farmer reaped $55,000 from 500 acres of catfish ponds. They are far more profitable than the 1,300 acres he devotes to rice, soybeans and subsidized cotton. Like...
...catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) is a repulsive-looking creature, a spiny, bewhiskered bottom scavenger that will eat nearly anything and thrives in some of the most polluted U.S. rivers. Northern fishermen usually throw catfish away in disgust, but tens of thousands of Americans, mostly in the South, consider its sweet white flesh a delicacy. This is especially so when it comes from catfish raised in the comparatively clean waters of a commercial pond...
Bamboo Beginnings. In response to this appetite, a growing number of farmers are flooding their acreage and raising fish instead of conventional crops. Last year the nation's 4,000 catfish farmers sold some 12 million lbs. of their product, and the 1972 harvest is projected at 52 million lbs. by the Interior Department's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries...
...some isolated ponds where the biologists found the walking catfish, it had already become the dominant species; in canals, it was fast gaining the upper hand over such native species as bass, brim and ordinary catfish. It seems to thrive in brackish as well as fresh water, and eats shrimp, crayfish, small minnows-practically anything that happens along. When biologists poison its ponds, it indignantly leaps from the water and starts across country during the daytime, sometimes dying of sunburn in the process. On land, where it forages nocturnally for snails and pine needles, the catfish is at its most...
These prodigious feats have Floridians worried that the walking catfish will turn out to be the most formidable immigrant of them all. Other pests can often be controlled or eliminated. But, as Ogilvie and Goodrick note in their report: "A fish with the ability and inclination to leave the water and walk around is, to the best of our knowledge, unmanageable...