foreseen, but returns depend upon management ability. Several 

 factors contributing to successful management are discussed. 

 Among these are location, customer amenities (parking, picnic 

 tables, restrooms, freedom from snakes and insects, etc.), 

 fishing quality, advertising, geographic separation from fish 

 farming activities that may be on the property, coirplementar y 

 goods and services (bait, snack, tackle, boat, and fish-cleaning 

 facilities), charges (five are discussed), pond size, pond 

 numbers, and proper fish culture techniques. Capital investment 

 is in the range of several hundred thousand dollars for 

 sophisticated operations. 

 Subject descriptors: 

 Catfish; trout; fee fishing; recreation; revenue; costs; returns. 



039 



Grizzel, Roy A., Jr. 



1971. 



SCS survey shows caged catfish culture not pie in the sky. 



Fish Farming Ind. 2(3): 17-18. 



The results of a 1970 Soil Conservation Service (SCS) survey of 



Arkansas operators of catfish cage-culture enterprises are 



reported, with data on the numbers of successes and failures, and 



a brief discussion of proolems encountered in the initial 



commercial trials of this method. Of 586 cages, 55 were 



failures, 75 averaged 47% survival from fingerling to food fish 



size (i.e., 47% success), 39 had survival in the 80% to 100% 



range, and survival data on two large growers are not reported. 



The surveyed operators are optimistic about the future. 



Subject descriptors: 



Catfish; survey data; cage culture. 



040 



Grizzell, Roy A.; Sullivan, Edward G.; Dillon, Olan w. 

 1969. 



Catfish farming, an agricultural enterprise. 



U.S. Dep. Agri., Soil Conserv. Serv., Farm. Bull. 2244, 22 pp. 

 The report is a practical guide to successful catfish farming. 

 The section on economics considers factors that affect the cost 

 of capital and other inputs, market or product form choices, 

 management decisions, and net returns. Other .topics relate to 

 water, pond structures, species selection, hatcheries, finger- 

 lings, stocking procedures, feeding, winter care, troubles, 

 treatments, and harvesting. Cost and input-use data are pre- 

 sented. 



Subject descriptors: 

 Catfish; general description; costs. 



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