Source: Sandra Avant, USDA/ARS, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 12/9/13

For decades, it’s been known that hybrid catfish — a cross of the fast-growing channel catfish with its close relative, the slower growing and larger blue catfish — generally have better growth, higher survival, and better meat yield than either channel or blue catfish.

But hybrids have been difficult to produce in large quantities.

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