On Wed, 12 May 2021 10:54:14 -0400, 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.

They alternate swai and tilapia in the ponds. They feed the tilapia
fish food and then harvest them. Then stock the muddy pond with
swai (a type of Asian catfish - a bottom feeder) and they eat up all
the tilapia poop and then they're harvested. The some water
conditioners and back to tilapia again.

-sw