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.
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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
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The AGFC
decided to capture the fish and move
them into agency lakes around Arkansas.
The AGFC plans to stock the following lakes with the giant fish:
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Lake Pickthorne
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Little Rock Aquatic Resources Education (A.R.E.) urban ponds
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Lake Pine Bluff
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Lake June
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First Old River
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Millwood Tailwaters
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Red River
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Clear Lake
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Irons Fork Lake
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Cox Creek Lake
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Lake DeGray
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Little Missouri River
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Lake Ouachita
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Sugar Loaf
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Hinkle
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Horsehead
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Jack Nolen
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Carol Cross
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Lake Lou Emma
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Lake Ludwig
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Craighead Forest Lake
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White River at Batesville
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Lock and Dam #1
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Lake Norfork
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Paris City Lake
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Harris Brake
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Lake Overcup
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Lake Conway
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Lake Barnett
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