Catfish production in North Carolina is the most well established of the warmwater fish aquaculture industries in the state. Producers raise more than 2,002,000 lbs. of foodfish annually generating a farmgate revenue of over $2,530,000. Our industry is vertically integrated with nearly all commercial production carried to a central processing center where numerous professionally developed items are made with sales going to wholesale and retail markets throughout the Southeastern U.S. A modern feedmill specializing in aquatic feed manufacturing supplies 23 million pounds of feed to not only to the catfish producers, but also to many Striped Bass and other fish farmers. In 2018, the value of farm production, processed product, and feed sales provide the North Carolina industry over $12,116,000 in combined revenue. For additional information, please see:
- Alabama Cooperative Extension: Catfish Farming is it for You?
- SRAC 0180: Channel Catfish: Life History and Biology
- SRAC 0181: Feeding Catfish Commercial Ponds
- SRAC 0183: Processing Channel Catfish
- SRAC 0184: Processed Catfish: Product Forms, Packaging, Yields and Product Mix
- SRAC 0190: Production of Hybrid Catfish
- SRAC 0191: Design and Construction of Degassing Units for Catfish Hatcheries
- SRAC 0192: Managing Off-Flavor Problems in Pond Raised Catfish
- SRAC 1800: Costs of Small-Scale Catfish Production for Direct Sales
- SRAC 1801: Infestations of the Trematode Bolbophorus sp. in Channel Catfish
- SRAC 1802: Channel Catfish Broodfish Management
- SRAC 1803: Channel Catfish Broodfish and Hatchery Management
- SRAC 1804: Managing Hatch Rate and Diseases in Catfish Eggs
- SRAC 1805: Advances in Catfish Harvesting Gear: Seines and Live Cars
- SRAC 1806: Feed Ingredients and Feeds for Channel Catfish
- Catfish Farming in the South SRAC Video
- Channel Catfish Spawning and Hatchery Management SRAC Video
