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<blockquote data-quote="HDRider" data-source="post: 1692026" data-attributes="member: 17025"><p>This area used to be a big catfish farming area. Lots of commercial ponds. Hardly any here now. Could not compete with foreign fish. Some have converted to minnows. Fisherman don't care what a minnow cost.</p><p></p><div style="margin-left: 20px">A similar downward spiral was seen throughout much of <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi" target="_blank">Mississippi</a> – as well as in other major catfish-producing states in the Southeast, such as <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alabama" target="_blank">Alabama</a> and <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arkansas" target="_blank">Arkansas</a>. In Mississippi, catfish acreage was more than halved, from 109,000 in 2003 to 48,600 in 2013. Nationally, reported acreage fell by a similar margin over that window – from 187,200 to 83,020 – and the catfish industry went from processing <a href="http://www.agecon.msstate.edu/whatwedo/budgets/docs/catfish2014.pdf" target="_blank">662 million pounds</a> of whole fish in 2003 to just 301 million pounds in 2014.</div> <div style="margin-left: 20px"></div> <div style="margin-left: 20px">Domestic demand for catfish has remained relatively steady during the past two decades. At the same time, imports have skyrocketed, from 214 million pounds of live-weight equivalent in 2006 to 854 million pounds in 2016, according to Avery's calculations. In the span of just a decade, U.S. catfish farmers went from dominating more than two-thirds of the country's market to occupying less than a third of it.</div> <div style="margin-left: 20px">[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-04-17/mississippi-catfish-industry-swamped-by-imports-regulations[/URL]</div></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HDRider, post: 1692026, member: 17025"] This area used to be a big catfish farming area. Lots of commercial ponds. Hardly any here now. Could not compete with foreign fish. Some have converted to minnows. Fisherman don't care what a minnow cost. [INDENT]A similar downward spiral was seen throughout much of [URL='https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi']Mississippi[/URL] – as well as in other major catfish-producing states in the Southeast, such as [URL='https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alabama']Alabama[/URL] and [URL='https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arkansas']Arkansas[/URL]. In Mississippi, catfish acreage was more than halved, from 109,000 in 2003 to 48,600 in 2013. Nationally, reported acreage fell by a similar margin over that window – from 187,200 to 83,020 – and the catfish industry went from processing [URL='http://www.agecon.msstate.edu/whatwedo/budgets/docs/catfish2014.pdf']662 million pounds[/URL] of whole fish in 2003 to just 301 million pounds in 2014.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]Domestic demand for catfish has remained relatively steady during the past two decades. At the same time, imports have skyrocketed, from 214 million pounds of live-weight equivalent in 2006 to 854 million pounds in 2016, according to Avery's calculations. In the span of just a decade, U.S. catfish farmers went from dominating more than two-thirds of the country's market to occupying less than a third of it.[/INDENT] [INDENT][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-04-17/mississippi-catfish-industry-swamped-by-imports-regulations[/URL][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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