catfish farm

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  Grace takes a rest with her mother, Kaye Perry, George and Martha's daughter.
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  Donnie Waters is extracting the hook from the mouth of the catfish with the assistance of George Carpenter.
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  Mayor Bennie Barnes hooks a large catfish. He and Donnie Waters are planning a fish fry for Margorie Waters who is retiring from her job with the City of Century. It takes about an hour for the Mayor and Donnie to catch 20 fish.
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  Mayor Barnes carries his fish to the scales for weigh-in.
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  Mayor Barnes has the prize catch of the day.
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  George Carpenter begins a demonstration of cleaning catfish by cutting off the spiny central fin.
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  The silo in the background holds 15 tons of catfish food. Catfish food is fed in pellet form. It is a high protein diet composed of fish meal, soybeans, corn, and wheat. In the summer, the catfish at the Carpenter pond consume a ton of food each day.
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  This specatular sunset can be seen from the Carpenter's kitchen window.
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  There is about 3,500 pounds per basket or 1,167 fish are retrived with each scoop.
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  There are no chemicals used in the pond. it is a totally controlled environment. A sample fish is sent to the processing plant for assessment. Tasters at the plant decide when the fish are ready for harvest. A select few fish from each load are ground up and anaylzed for chemicals by the USDA.