Around the city of Belzoni, Mississippi, the catfish industry used to be all conquering – but then came the imports from Asia
Jason “Bubba” Braswell flips a switch in the cab of his modified truck and pellets start spraying into an adjacent pond. The surface boils as young catfish race to collect the feed on his farm, just south of a little airstrip where brightly colored crop-dusters buzz in and out all day.
Braswell loves raising the whiskered food fish here in the Mississippi delta, but scores of other catfish farmers weren’t so lucky after the catfish bubble burst in the late 2000s.
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