Bill Battle peers through the window of a pickup truck at his catfish farm, Pride of the Pond, near Tunica, Miss. The land is pancake-flat, broken up by massive ponds, some holding up to 100,000 ...

In Checkout Line, Lou Bendrick cooks up answers to reader questions about how to green their food choices and other diet-related quandaries. Lettuce know what food worries keep you up at night. Dang!

Although catfish can be caught year-round, locating lots of fish is most predictable in spring and early summer during the spawn in Northeast Florida. Like many freshwater species, catfish have an ...

Workers gather catfish into large nets at a fish farm in Doddsville, Miss. The fish are placed in large tanks of cold water and shipped to a processing plant. Bill Battle peers through the window of a ...