ARS Announces Winners of Innovative Challenge to Preserve Flavor of Catfish : USDA ARS
Contact: Autumn Canaday WASHINGTON, March 3, 2021—The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and HeroX today announced the grand prize winners of a competition that invited the public to submit innovative solutions to preserve the flavor of catfish and prevent the blue-green algae that delays U.S. catfish harvesting. For the last 30 years, aquaculture researchers have shown that catfish exposure to certain varieties of blue-green pond algae, also known as cyanobacteria, can cause a delay in harvest for roughly 50 percent of catfish ponds each year. Cyanoba...
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