With soaring prices for just about everything needed to raise their fish - from fuel to feed - catfish farmers are anxious.

Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head - another farmer scrambling to stay solvent has drained the pond and will till it for row crops.

Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head - another farmer, scrambling to stay solvent has drained the pond and will till it for row crops.