In recent years the food fish market for largemouth bass (LMB; Micropterus salmoides) has been rapidly expanding in the United States and Canada. Commercial LMB producers target fresh Asian food fish markets in large cities on the U.S. East and West Coasts as well as Canada. Arkansas is the leading producer of LMB for the food fish market.
While most U.S. farmers exclusively raise LMB for the sport fish market, others are using LMB as an alternative higher-value food fish product compared to channel catfish. In order to increase production efficiency, we have been exploring intensive pond-based production system used by the U.S. catfish industry s as an alternative to culture LMB in traditional earthen ponds…
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