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Fish Farming in Pennsylvania
Fish Farm PA is not a destination, but a love, a hobby, a livelihood, or a dream. Pennsylvania waters are ideal for raising sport fish like bass and trout. Commercial aquaculture is a huge industry in Pennsylvania; it is #4 in US trout production, and the #1 US trout fishing state, adding well over a billion dollars a year to the state’s economy. Growers here produce 70% of the trout in the northeastern states. Pennsylvania boasts the world’s largest goldfish farm, largest trout farm east of the Mississippi, and has one of the oldest continually operating trout hatcheries (1902). It is the 11th largest aquaculture producing state.
Fish grown include: bass, trout, bluegills, catfish, crappie, shiners, walleye, dace, carp, suckers, perch, killifish, crayfish, minnows, mummichog, eel, goldfish, mussels, sunfish, tadpoles, pickerel, frogs, and bullhead.
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Catfish, common name for about 2200 species of fishes, of which some 1200 are South American. Two families are primarily marine. All other families inhabit fresh water. Catfishes are mostly nocturnal scavengers, living near the bottom in shallow waters.
The name catfish is derived from the feelers, or barbels, that extend from each side of the upper jaw of the fish and, in some species, from the lower jaw also, suggesting the whiskers of a cat. The dorsal and pectoral fins are often edged with sharp spines, in some cases poisonous, which are used in defense and can inflict severe wounds. Members of several catfish families in South America are covered with bony plates. A European species, the sheatfish, or wels, is the largest catfish, reportedly reaching a weight of 290 kg (650 lb) and a length of almost 4 m (almost 13 ft).
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