On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 4:54:16 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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. 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. You don't really think that tinned
> > kippered herring or whitefish or whatever comes from extremely clean
> > water, do you? 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.

I had a client that had a shrimp farm. This guy is a brilliant person. He's had many different farms. I think these days he raises pigs and also sets up luaus. He'll sell you the pig and cook it too - brilliant. He used to raise shrimp and fish and other things - including frogs and taro. Most aqua-farms are at sea level. This guy had his farm in the mountains - brilliant. The clean mountain waters just flowed through his ponds. He researched the foods for his fishes and imported them from the mainland - brilliant. The food and water made his shrimp exceptionally large and in demand. One day, after a flash flood, the mountainside came down on his farm. He was lucky that him and his wife wasn't there at the time. They, along with their truck, would have just been buried and would have simply disappeared until someone in the future happened to find them. He said he didn't think anyone would bother to dig through tons of dirt to check if they were in there.