Lake Ouachita Collins Net Pens |
| Net pens are used by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission to grow various species of fish for stocking in Arkansas lakes. The Pens are built in a cove of the lake and recently hundreds of wild blue catfish were eating fish food that escapes the pens and have grown as large as 100 pounds.
The fish are eating about $200 worth of fish food each day, according to the AGFC’s warm water fish hatchery coordinator Don Brader. “They have learned to squeeze the net and push the food through the mesh so that it falls outside the pen. They get fed twice a day and they don’t have any reason to leave,” he said. The net pens are located in areas where fishing is prohibited. “We feel that the best way to get rid of these big catfish is to move them to areas around the state where the public can catch them,” Brader explained
The AGFC
decided to capture the fish and move The AGFC plans to stock the following lakes with the giant fish:
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