Catfish Catches On

Catfish Catches OnIn wall street jargon, catfish is a growth industry. Yes, they're growing catfish. On farms. Hold the chuckles, Charley, the story gets funnier. Last year, some guys in Mississippi took a 100,000,000-pound crop of farm-raised catfish to market. That's $200,000,000 at retail--and the trend is vertical! These numbers are luring such unlikely corporate pillars as Coca-Cola, Campbell Soup and Weyerhaeuser into the aquiculture (growing fish as a farm crop) business. Obviously, you d...