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Commercial-Scale Catfish Fingerling Suppliers
  • October 10, 2025
  • Posted by: Luke A. Roy, Anita M. Kelly, and Taryn Garlock
  • in Aquaculture
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Catfish fingerlings

The following is a list of commercial-scale catfish fingerling suppliers for prospective catfish producers. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System and Auburn University do not endorse these individuals, companies, or the services and products that they provide. This is a partial list of suppliers known to be available as of October 2025.

The large-scale catfish hatcheries that supply the United States farm-raised catfish industry are primarily located in Arkansas and Mississippi. They provide farmers with channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and hybrid catfish (Ictalurus punctatus ♀ x Ictalurus furcatus ♂). The list below is for people desiring to purchase large quantities of channel or hybrid catfish for their commercial farming operations. Commercial-scale hatcheries produce and sell catfish fingerlings on a large scale. A commercial catfish grow-out farm may stock 8,000 to 10,000 or more fingerlings per acre, so a 10-acre pond might be stocked with 80,000 to 100,000 fingerlings. As an example, a 500-acre commercial catfish grow-out farm in west Alabama might require up to 5 million fingerlings or more per year supplied by a hatchery depending on their stocking strategy.

Arkansas

Catfish fingerlings being added to a pondBaxter Land Company—Jeff Baxter, Dick Baxter, and Dalton Robinson

  • 2710 Hwy. 1 N., Watson, AR 71674
  • Office: (870) 866-2806 (Dick)
  • Office: (870) 866-2807 (Dalton)
  • Hatchery: (870) 877-2494
  • Offers hybrid catfish

Pool Fish Distributors, Inc

  • 1131 Brownsville Loop, Lonoke, AR 72086
  • Office: (501) 676-2191
  • Cell: (501) 438-3011

Mississippi

America’s Catch Inc.—Andrew Stainback

  • Mailing Adress: P.O. Box 584, Itta Bena, MS 38941
  • Physical Address: 46623 Co. Rd. 523, Itta Bena, MS 38941
  • (662) 254-7200

Harvest Select—Eric Peatman (Hatchery Manager) and Bill Nichols (Vice President of Farming Operations)

  • P.O. Box 560, Inverness, MS 38754
  • (662) 242-3892
  • Offers channel catfish fingerlings (4 to 8 inches)

Fish fingerlings being put into a stocking tank.Jubilee Farms, Inc.—Wilson and Leigh Holland

  • P.O. Box 569, Indianola, MS 38751
  • (662) 207-6078
  • (662) 207-1150
  • Offers hybrid catfish fingerlings

Need More Fisheries—Shorty Jones

  • 1017 Greenfield Rd., Glen Allan, MS 38744
  • (662) 820-8330

Nobile Fish Farm—Will and Jerry Nobile

  • 58 Jerry Nobile Rd., Moorhead, MS 38761
  • (662) 207-0362
  • (662) 207-1250

Quiver River Aquaculture Inc.—Derenda Moyer

  • P.O. Box 187, Sunflower, MS 38778
  • Cell: (662) 515-2490
  • (662) 569-2545
  • Offers any size, from eggs to stockers

People unloading catfish from a truck to stock a pond.Tackett Fish Farms—Jim Tackett and Joseph Walker

  • 23939 Co. Rd. 523, Schlater, MS 38952
  • (662) 254-7322
  • Offers vaccinated and unvaccinated fingerlings in any size, from fry to 8-inch fish

T & D Fish Farms Inc.—Carey Donahue and Kent Toler

  • Mailing Address: P.O. Box 42, Inverness, MS 38753
  • Physical Address: 807 West Grand Avenue, Isola, MS 38754
  • (662) 830-1234

Wright Fish Farms, Inc.—Robert Wright and Robert Wright IV

Alabama Suppliers

There are hatcheries in Alabama that supply smaller volumes of catfish and other sport fish for recreational ponds. Visit the Producers of Sport Fish (Largemouth Bass, Bream, etc.) for Stocking web page at aces.edu for a list of these recreational fish hatcheries and fingerling suppliers.