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Intensive aeration of channel catfish ponds. Six 10-hp aerators (one out of sight to the left) being used in a ten-acre catfish pond.
 Catfish Fingerlings
 Catfish swim-up fry in hatchery
 Hybrid catfish harvested as two-pound food fish one year after fingerlings were stocked
 Technicians wade into broodfish ponds to find and remove spawns that are laid in spawning cans by broodfish.
 A catfish egg mass, or spawn, after removal from a broodfish pond. Spawns are brought into the Hatchery to hatch and grow into fingerlings before being returned to grow-out ponds.
 Channel Catfish Fry 21 days after hatching.
 A research scientist inspects families of Delta Select channel catfish destined for release to the catfish farming industry.
 Hybrid catfish (Channel catfish female x Blue catfish male) are very aggressive feeders that thrive in the Partitioned Aquaculture System.
 Clean water from the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer supplies the catfish ponds in the Mississippi Delta.
 Channel catfish in a basket while loading into a hauling truck.
 The goal of the Warmwater Aquaculture Research Unit is to assist the catfish farming industry in producing a clean, healthy, and sustainable food product.


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People Avritt, Walter Bosworth, Brian Chisolm, Dakoda Chisolm, Landon Dunn, Ronnie Harries, Marcuslene Harris, Debra Kirby, Mona Mascagni, James Oberle, Daniel
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