Intelligence
Selection program produces channel catfish with improved processing yield
A selection program can produce channel catfish with smaller heads relative to their body weights to deliver higher dress and fillet yields.
Health & Welfare
Off-flavors in channel catfish managed with low-dose applications of copper sulfate
Off-flavors in farmed fish cost the U.S. catfish industry millions but their prevalence can be greatly reduced by copper sulfate treatment of pond water.
Health & Welfare
Early host response improves ESC resistance in channel catfish
In a challenge study of catfish families identified as resistant or susceptible to enteric septicemia (ESC), immune response was activated 24 hours earlier in resistant families and bacterial levels were suppressed.
Health & Welfare
Dietary gossypol benefits limited in improving ESC resistance in catfish
The amount of cottonseed meal that can be included in fish diets depends mainly on its levels of free gossypol and available lysine.
Responsibility
Vegetated strip evaluated for storm water effluent treatment in catfish pond
The authors integrated a vegetated filter strip into a commercial catfish pond to capture effluent as part of best management practices.
Health & Welfare
Catfish of tomorrow
Catfish producers and processors should actively begin the process of reconsidering production systems to drastically reduce costs and equitably share risks.
Responsibility
Sediment accumulation in channel catfish production ponds
We sampled pond bottom sediments from 45 commercial channel catfish ponds that were in production for 14 days to 21 years.