The trick is to look for the “pond-raised” label on the packaging. I’ve worked on catfish ponds in the Mississippi Delta, and I can tell you those fish are well taken care of. Protein-rich feed, water constantly monitored for freshness, temperature, oxygen content from the day they hatch till the day they’re harvested. The end product is a fish filet that has to be tasted to be believed.
I hope none of you Yankees reading this believe me. We Southerners prefer keeping this culinary treat for ourselves.
I am sitting here right now thinking about the people from up North that come down here to one of the world class casinos operating here on the Coast and I see them eating their buffet or ala cart offerings and thinking that they are eating (as sometimes falsely advertised) GULF SHRIMP or local fish such as Red Fish, Red Snapper, Speckled Trout and Flounder... only to be eating some chicom raised mystery fish or enjoying their chemical soaked and irradiated shrimp and thinking that it all came from the serene waters that the window that they gaze out of while enjoying "local cuisine"... overlooks.
LLS