would require $2.6 million for implementation in 10 Arkansas 

 counties and $2.6 million in 15 Mississippi counties, most of 

 which would come from the Office of Economic Opportunity and the 

 Economic Development Administration. Participants in these 

 programs would receive technical, managerial, and biological aid 

 in the establishment of catfish farms. The projection of new 

 catfish farmers was estimated at 150 with about 6,000 more acres 

 of catfish farms in each of the two States. 

 Subject descriptors: 

 Catfish; economic development role. 



046 



Lee, Jasper S. 

 1971. 



Catfish farming, a reference unit. 



Miss. State Univ., Curriculum Coord. Unit Vocat. Tech. Educ, 

 103 pp. 



While this "publication is designed primarily for use by 

 secondary teachers of agricultural occupations," it is a useful, 

 descriptive, nontechnical handbook in which chapter 1 (job 1) 

 provides an economic view and prospectus of the catfish farming 

 business and industry. Besides this, topics include pond and 

 other water facility construction, fingerling production, growing 

 food, feeding, water management, disease and parasite control, 

 other controls (predators, trash fish, and other pests) , 

 harvesting and hauling, marketing, processing, and bibliography. 

 Also presented are revenues, costs and returns for selected 

 scales of operation (different pond acreages and output levels) ; 

 equipment costs, equipment lives and minimum-maximum compatible 

 acreaqe levels; investment (initial) costs; projected total and 

 per capita consumption (to year 2020) ; marketing alternatives; 

 and other factors that affect business and industry performance. 

 Subject descriptors: 



Catfish; general description; revenue; costs, returns; consump- 

 tion data; forecasts; markets. 



047 



Lee, Jasper S. 



1973. 



Commercial catfish farming. 



Interstate Printers and Publishers, Danville, 111., 263 pp. 



The material in this book covers a broad range of factors which 



influence the catfish industry. The first three chapters include 



the history of catfish farming and how to establish a catfish 



farm. The biology of catfish, the construction of water 



facilities, and securing and managing water are described in 



three chapters. There are chapters on nutrition of catfish, 



production and selection of breedfish and fingerlings, increasing 



growth, harvesting, and marketing. Other chapters cover 



controlling diseases, parasites, predators, and other pests. 



There is a chapter on recreational fee-lake operation. The final 



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