Fuel, feed costs crippling US catfish industry »
Posted By STONERS 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & FinanceRick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head another farmer scrambling to stay solvent has drained the pond and will till it for row crops.
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STONERS3 months, 2 weeks ago
"The casinos that had been bustling along the Mississippi River in the northern part of the Delta have started to see layoffs. That's one less option for former workers at catfish farms in the nearly dozen counties in the Delta, where unemployment runs in double digits in some areas."
"The real problem I see is that after the decline of the catfish industry, these displaced workers, they have no place to go," said state Rep. Willie Bailey, D-Greenville. "These are nontransferable skills to other jobs in the Delta."
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