Catfish sales raked in $23.1 million for Natural State aquaculturalists in 2022, around 6.5% of the national total, according to a report from the Farm Bureau of Arkansas. According to the U.S.

Pay lakes are privately owned stocked fishing ponds where anglers pay a fee, either per day or per fish, to catch species like catfish, carp, or trout.

INDIANOLA, Miss. -- America's catfish industry, stung by dropping prices triggered by a flood of cheaper fish from Vietnam, is gearing up for a possible antidumping campaign. The effort led by ...

Bill Battle peers through the window of a pickup truck at his catfish farm, Pride of the Pond, near Tunica, Miss. The land is pancake-flat, broken up by massive ponds, some holding up to 100,000 ...

BELZONI, Miss. (AP) — Pond scum was once an aquatic nuisance that Hall Barret III once hated to see in his catfish ponds. It just might become his next cash cow. After more than 30 years, Barret is ...