Chinese company setting up ambitious Asian carp processing for export operation in Mississippi
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Associated Press] - July 23, 2014 -
Baird, Mississipi, Moon River Foods said Tuesday that it would invest $3 million and hire up to 100 people to harvest the fish, which will be filleted and packaged at a plant in Baird, near Indianola. Moon River is a subsidiary of China's Shanghai Shen Ran Trade Co. Ltd., said company representative Roger Liu.
Liu said Moon River hopes to process 50 tons of Asian carp, five days a week, for a total of 25 million pounds per year.
Duane Chapman, a biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Missouri who studies carp, said he's not sure if carp stocks would hold up if fished so heavily, or even if Moon River could find enough fishermen...
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