Catfish Imports Worry U.S. Fish Farmers

CBS – The U.S. catfish business is a $4 billion dollar annual industry, but imported fish has many domestic farmers worried.

Back in 2003, 3 percent of U.S. catfish sales came from foreign countries. In 2009, that grew to 57 percent. CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann reports that farmers in Alabama are fed up and want the government to do something about it.

Central Alabama is known as catfish country. As a third-generation farmer, Townsend Kyser said he's become the small fish in trouble.

"I am not afraid of competition on a level playing field," Kyser said. "The playing fields are different right now."

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