Farm raised catfish can be good, but not near as good as channel cat from a river.
“Farm raised catfish can be good, but not near as good as channel cat from a river.”
Depends on the river and what the river connects to. If you catch it yourself and know the river and know that it doesn’t connect to polluted waterways, then I would consider eating it. But if you have no idea where it was caught, you might be eating fish caught downstream from a chemical plant or a sewage processing facility. Unfortunately, many waterways in the US now have chemical run-off from farms and I would avoid eating fish caught there.