The market price for bighead is low, so it is unlikely to be profitable if cultured by itself. Grass carp is in greater demand as a food fish, but high density culture systems have not been developed. Last, there are a number of aquaculture species with limited or no potential in Arkansas. Competition from wild-caught frogs in foreign countries has made domestic frog culture uneconomical. Salamander culture has suffered from similar problems.
Freshwater prawns are tropical animals that die in the winter in Arkansas.
PL's can be both hard to find and prohibitively expensive. Prawns grow at different rates so that periodic harvesting is needed to remove the larger, market-sized animals. Redfish culture potential is limited by difficulty in obtaining fingerlings since broodstock must be caught from the wild, and by temperature since redfish cannot survive winters in Arkansas. Culture ponds should have salinities of 10 to 45 ppt. The market price for redfish has also declined.