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Nigerians decry US catfish ban
2019-01-11 16:09:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
The Nigerian Government must take immediate action to overturn a US ban on catfish imports from the west African country, according to the president of the Catfish Farmers Association of Nigeria (CAF
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Great Scott catfish farmer honoured in print
2019-01-11 14:56:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
A biography of Ed Scott Jr, the first ever non-white owner and operator of a catfish plant in the US, has been published this week.
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Chinese scientists discover a new species of catfish in Myanmar
2017-01-23 23:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: This is the new catfish species Oreoglanis hponkanensis discovered in Myanmar. Credit: Xiao-Yong Chen During a survey of the freshwater fishes of the Mali Hka River drainage in the Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar, scientists Xiao-Yong C…
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House members want catfish vote
2016-06-20 12:02:00| National Hog Farmer
A bipartisan group of 178 Congressmen are urging the House Republican leadership to schedule a vote to end USDA’s catfish inspection program and return it to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The members emphasized this is a waste of taxpayer dollars and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has 10 times stated that this program is “duplicative” and at “high risk” for fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.” read more
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Rare, blind catfish never before found in US discovered in national park cave
2016-06-17 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: An extremely rare eyeless catfish species previously known to exist only in Mexico has been discovered in Texas. Dean Hendrickson, curator of ichthyology at The University of Texas at Austin, identified the live fish, discovered in a deep limestone cave at Amistad National Recreation Area near Del Rio, Texas, as the endangered Mexican blindcat (Prietella phreatophila). The pair of small catfish, collected by a team in May, have been relocated to the San Antonio Zoo. The Mexican blindcat, a species...
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