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A captivating story of the industry's rise in Alabama.

With a wonderful ear for dialogue and in flowing narrative style, Karni Perez weaves together oral histories collected from early hatchery owners, catfish farmers, processors, and researchers to recount the important contributions made by Alabamians to the channel catfish industry. Perez describes the struggles and glories of fish culture from its early days as an experimental venture to the thriving present-day commercial enterprise that supplies warmwater fish for the American food industry.

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Traces the roots of this essential modern-day part of Alabama tradition
Catfish farming in Alabama is a relatively new industry: it began in 1960 when three individuals helped create the industry from scratch. FISHING FOR GOLD: THE STORY OF ALABAMA'S CATFISH INDUSTRY traces the roots of this essential modern-day part of Alabama tradition, revealing the challenges to the enterprise, the maintenance of catfish farms over fifty-four of Alabama's sixty-seven counties, and how the industry has blossomed to be a mainstay of the state's economy. FISHING FOR GOLD will interest both business book readers and especially any with ties to Alabama or fishing.

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Publisher: [MontgomeryPublication date: 1906Subjects: AgricultureNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Label & Narrow Web, published by Rodman Publishing on September 1, 2010. The length of the article is 385 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Markham Bailey digital label company opens in Alabama.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Company overview)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: Label & Narrow Web (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2010
Publisher: Rodman Publishing
Volume: 15Issue: 6Page: 28(1)

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"Tannehill and the Growth of the Alabama Iron Industry" is a beautiful 8" x 11 1/2" book, lavishly illustrated with over 260 photographs and maps.The story begins with Daniel Hillman, an experienced furnaceman from New Jersey, who located a forge on the banks of Roupes Creek in 1830.Hillman's Forge would give way to a larger bloomery under management of noted Southern ironmaster Moses Stroup, then to three charcoal blast furnaces that would make the Tannehill site an important center of pig iron production for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

As the war drew to an end, units of the 8th Iowa Cavalry raced into the furnace yard on March 31, 1865 and knocked from production one of the Selma Arsenal's most productive iron suppliers.The battery of high stone furnaces, equipped with hot blast stoves and steam power, was rated at 22 tons a day.

When Croxton's Raiders left the site in flames moving on to Tuscaloosa, the work place where 600 slaves and white mechanics had been busily engaged the day before, fell strangely silent.From its toppled stones, however, would emerge in the 1870s a place called Birmingham, the "Pittsburgh of the South."

The Tannehill site, subject of six major archaeological investigations from 1956 to 1995, would reveal important advances in furnace design conflicting with earlier assumptions that southern iron making during the Civil War was technologically backward.

The story then is not an account of magnolias, jasmine and the folkways fiction writers like to use to describe antebellum Alabama.It is rather a hard look at the struggling iron industry that would bridge one era of iron manufacture to another and in the end give Birmingham the distinction of becoming the South's most heavily industrialized city.

In 1976, as part of the American Bicentennial Celebration, Tannehill Furnace No. 1 was re-fired.It marked the first time in U.S. history, reported the Smithsonian Institute, that an iron furnace, out of blast for over a century, had ever been put back into production.Today, the Tannehill site is a national metallurgical engineering landmark. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 494 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry.(Book review)
Author: Harvey, H. Jackson
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 73Issue: 3Page: 745(2)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, published by Alabama Academy of Science on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1171 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Industry and Economics.
Publication: Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: Alabama Academy of Science
Volume: 76Issue: 2Page: 88(3)

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