鲶鱼养殖的发展是美国水产养殖的最新成就之一,近几年来主要产区已从东南和中南诸州逐步向西部沿岸诸州扩展,甚至本来不产鲶鱼的爱达荷州也开始利用温泉水养殖鲶鱼,食用商品鲶鱼的年零售额现已超过几亿美元.鲶鱼养殖在美国已有50年历史,最初的商业性养殖年产量仅200～400公斤/公顷,自从Kermit Sneed和H·P·Clemens研究成功斑点叉尾(鱼回)的产卵,以及五十年代 The development of catfish farming is one of the latest achievements of aquaculture in the United States. In recent years, the major producing areas have gradually expanded from the southeast and central and southern states to the west coast of the continent. Even Idaho, which did not produce catfish, started to use hot spring water Farmed catfish and food commodities now have annual retail sales of more than hundreds of millions of U.S. catfish have been in the United States for 50 years and have been initially commercially grown at yields of only 200 to 400 kg / ha. Since Kermit Sneed and HP Clemens studied the success of Channel Catfish (FISH) spawning, as well as the fifties