Catfish are not difficult to grow, and are easily raised by a hobby or commercial aquaculture farmer. Aquaculture farmers grow catfish alone or combined with other species, such as trout, bass or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shortly before 7:45 a.m., the slaughterhouse workers trudged inside the nondescript building at the end of a dirt road and headed ...

Obscured by brush, a rather plain-looking pond sits on the longest dirt road in Camden County. However, for owner Zack Gowen, those 3 acres of water in rural White Oak are an investment in the future.

The USDA catfish inspection program, first authorized in 2008, is continued in the 2014 farm bill, which also includes a first-of-its-kind “crop insurance” program for catfish farmers. Most of the ...

After the 2008 Farm Bill moved the responsibility for catfish inspection from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the two agencies did ...

A North Carolina dad and his son's day of fishing at a nearby farm pond has turned into a record-setting catch. However, the father had to return to the pond, a week later, to recapture the winning ...