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Meyer, Fred P.; Sneed, Kermit E. ; Eschmeyer, Paul T. 

 1973. 



Second report to fish farmers (the status of warmwater fish 

 farming and progress in fish farming research). 



U.S. Dep. Inter., Bur. Sport Fish. Wildl., Resource Publ. 113, 

 123 pp. 



This is a practical handbook. Several business and industry 

 practices and choices are discussed in terms of their economic 

 impact, sometimes in terms of cost or revenue. Topics include: 

 culture methods, feeding and feeds, diseases, pond management, 

 harvesting, marketing and processing, high-density culture 

 methods, stock improvement, mixed species culture, noncatfish 

 species culture (golden shiner, fathead minnow, goldfish, 

 buffalofish, crayfish, and bass, black, white and striped), and 

 fish and arable land crop rotation. Per-acre gross and net 

 returns (to land, management, and risk) are shown for various 

 alternative land and fish crops (1970 data). Investment 

 (initial) cost and operating costs and returns are shown for a 

 business with two 10-acre ponds (1970 data). 

 Subject descriptors: 

 Catfish; general description; revenue; costs; returns. 



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Miller, Morton M. ; Nash, Darrel A. 

 1969. 



The development of catfish as a farm crop and an estimation of 

 its economic adaptability to radiation processing. 

 U.S. Dep. Commer., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., Econ . Mark. Res. Div., 

 unpubl. manuscr., 136 pp. 



Economic activity relating to wild and farmed catfish is 

 described so far as possible with available, often insufficient 

 secondary data through about 1966-67. Costs and returns for 

 harvesting wild stocks, farming, processing, marketing, and 

 distribution are discussed and shown in tables, along with price, 

 consumption, market, seasonality, estimated price elasticity, and 

 other information. Market output is then projected for the 

 period 1975-85; the benefits and costs of fresh, radiation- 

 pasteurized, and frozen catfish products are compared; and it is 

 concluded that the radiation-pasteurized form would provide 

 considerable economic benefits over the alternatives, given the 

 assumptions and methodology used in guantif ication. 

 Subject descriptors: 



Catfish; production data; consumption data; marketing; 

 processing; demand analysis; forecasts; benefits; technology; 

 radiation processing. 



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