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On 2021-05-11 8:41 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 5/11/2021 7:22 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 May 2021 itsjoannotjoann wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 cshenk wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, looking for Catfish ideas folks here have actually used and liked.
>>>>
>>>> We will probably do the normal breaded and fried this time but like
>>>> ideas for other ways you actually done and liked.
>>>>
>>> I've only had it breaded in cornmeal and fried.Â* Farm-raised only.

>>
>> Anyone who has had an aquarium knows that catfish are the tank's shit
>> eaters... fact!
>>

> All fish eat stuff like that.Â* You don't really think that tinned
> kippered herring or whitefish or whatever comes from extremely clean
> water, do you?Â* Fish aren't particularly choosy about what they eat and
> they do all poop in the same water they dine in.
>


It's especially bad in farmed fish. They keep them confined in pens and
they are pretty densely packed. Large amounts of food are shovelled in
and there is a bit of a feeding frenzy, and fish crap when they eat, so
that crap is floating around in the water with the food they are
snapping at.