Arkansas' Catchable Channel Catfish Program
The discreet utilization of Arkansas' expansiTe hatchery system has become an integral tool of the management staff of the fisheries division as related to the manipulation of a given fish population in a desired direction. As attempts at population manipulation through mass stocking of fingerling fish within existing populations became more or less universally accepted as being ineffective and incongruent with sound management principles, hatchery production, particularly of channel catfish, was slanted toward rearing of larger and older fish which would not only be less susceptible...
