Professor Dr. Rex Dunham, has been affiliated with the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences since 1978, making him the current longest active professor at Auburn University. During ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University research and outreach has contributed to a 59% productivity increase over the past decade in a crucial stage of catfish farming, a new multistate ...

As the 2012 farm bill moves to the Senate floor, a scuffle has intensified over the inspection of catfish. The battle pits the southern catfish industry and its supporters against a wider coalition of ...

Scientists at Auburn University injected alligator DNA into farm-raised catfish. The scientists found that the fish were more resistant to disease and less likely to reproduce. They hope the new and ...

As Congress moves ahead with the farm bill — legislation that has historically been full of (figurative) pork — there’s one really obvious measure that needs to be eliminated. A new program that will ...

When New Kent fishermen Chris Von Hatten and Christopher Whitmire go out on the Pamunkey River in the early hours of the morning, they hope to catch 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of blue catfish by midday.

The Chesapeake Bay has an overabundance of invasive blue catfish, but the region’s watermen and seafood wholesalers are missing out on a potentially huge national market for them. There are two ...

One way of dealing with food supply issues is to grow your own. And a local seafood restaurant business is taking that step to make sure it can get the fresh catfish that its customers crave.