If you are a fishing enthusiast, one way that you could potentially turn this passion into an income is to start a commercial fish pond. With a commercial fish pond, you can grow fish and then ...

At these lakes, trophy wild catfish pulled from rivers by commercial anglers are stocked in ponds for anglers who pay a small fee to fish. But the fishing itself isn't the only draw for pay-lake ...

Dozens of would-be catfish kings have pulled the plug on their operations, with the state’s commercial catfish ponds plummeting from about 1,000 acres in 1992 to 75 to 100 acres today.

Catfish are not difficult to grow, and are easily raised by a hobby or commercial aquaculture farmer. Aquaculture farmers grow catfish alone or combined with other species, such as trout, bass or ...

Commercial catfish ponds cover 1,200 acres of Texas, mostly in Wharton and Matagorda counties, and produce as much as 14,000 pounds of catfish per acre annually. Advertisement.

COLUMBIA – State natural resource officials fear fishing for the blue catfish has become too popular, especially by those supplying Upstate fishing ponds, and are supporting a limit on the ...

Kyser, 28, grew up in the catfish business. In the 1960s, his grandfather mortgaged a dairy farm and beef cattle operation to buy land for the first large-scale commercial catfish operation in ...

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection announced that 20,000 channel catfish were stocked into eighteen lakes and ponds located throughout the state on Monday. These ...

The state record is 41 pounds, and the channel catfish is the official state commercial fish. ... including a stocking the pond for Tennessee's Free Fishing Day on June 8.