Touring
Aquaculture
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Aquaculture
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Steve Klingaman, catfish farmer, among several
other ambitious aquaculture farmers, have helped make aquaculture
a major industry in Texas. As a motivated group, along with
other farmers in the region, formed the Texas Aquaculture
Cooperative in October 2001. The next July they began processing
their fish at a temporary facility, then in spring of 2003
they broke ground on a 6,000 sq. ft. plant on 70 acres,
west of Markham, Texas. All kinds of aquaculture products
raised by co-op members- shrimp, crawfish, redfish, catfish,
hybrid-striped bass, are processed at the plant.
Click here for
Aqua Farms of Texas contact information.
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Hybrid
Striped Bass |
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Owned by Jim and Vicki Ekstrom, Silver
Streak Bass Co. is a family-owned fish farm located in
Danevang, Texas.
100% USA Farm-Raised Hybrid Striped Bass is the only species
Silver Streak produces. By having one product, one focus,
they have mastered their business growing premium hybrid striped
bass for distribution for wholesale food and recreational
fishing markets. Ekstrom began in in the mid-80s, and in 1997
began farming operations at his current site.
Today, the company harvests over 2 million lbs. annually,
making it one of the largest producers in the USA.
Come visit Jim and his crew and see what it is all about!
See the different phases of its operations, from the fish
they stock, to feed selection, to harvesting, packout and
shipping.
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 Crawfish
Farms
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Come down to El Campo, Texas and see how it
is really done on the crawfish farms!
Visit Pincher's Boil N' Pot and see up close and personal
and get a glimpse at how the mudbugs (served purged) are harvested
from the pond that is on-sight. Ducks grace the pond, as hungry
customers stream into the restaurant to satisfy their hunger
for fresh, cajun-styled seafood and zydeco music fills the
air to pass the time.
Owners, Craig & Debbie Radley, converted their rice fields
to aquaculture ponds in 1994. They took their marketing program
one step further, and success has followed them. They named
their venture "Pincher's," after the "pinchers on the crawfish."
They definitely are onto something!
We know good food in El Campo, and this is goooood eatin'
!!
Click here for
Pincher's contact information.
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Go back a few years, to the early 1980s, and
Chris and Susan Dettling, owners of El Campo Crawfish Farm,
also took an opportunity and became crawfish entrepreneurs.
Click
here for
El Campo Crawfish Farm
contact information.
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Catfish
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