Shortly before 7:45 a.m., the slaughterhouse workers trudged inside the nondescript building at the end of a dirt road and headed to what they called the "kill floor." There, when no one was looking, ...

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.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Mississippi catfish farms have settled a lawsuit alleging that they brought workers from Mexico to the U.S. and paid them significantly more than they previously paid local ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. catfish farmers thought they had pulled off a coup when they persuaded Congress a few years ago to require tougher federal inspections for the whiskered fish. It’s not that they were ...

JACKSON, Miss.JACKSON, Miss. — Two Mississippi catfish farms have settled a lawsuit alleging that they brought workers from Mexico to the U.S. and paid them significantly more than they previously ...

Finding the catch of the day may be close than you think. The Catfish Corner is fish farm in rural Mesquite that harvests 48,000 catfish from six ponds since 1968. "It's luck and determination," owner ...

Raised in Mississippi, I grew up thinking there were only three freshwater fish in the world--catfish, perch, and bream. Catfish was my favorite of the three. I remember going down to Under the Hill ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The soaring price of feed for catfish and competition from imports has eroded the profitability of catfish farms, an aquaculture expert said. Catfish feed prices hovered ...

BELZONI, Miss. — 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 giving ...

Catfish is one bottom-feeder with friends in high places. In fact, they’re about to hook two prominent U.S. senators into spending $15 million a year – permanently – to build a special Catfish Office ...

Two Mississippi catfish farms have settled a lawsuit alleging that they brought workers from Mexico to the U.S. and paid them significantly more than they previously paid local Black farmworkers for ...