Vietnamese basa catfish may be better eatin' than the channel cats farmed in the United States, according to studies comparing the two. Not only are they just as good for you as fish that are legally ...

More than 90 percent of the catfish imported to the United States originates in Vietnam, a country that has become the largest competitor to U.S. Delta region catfish farmers. An international ...

Horace McQueen has a beef with faux catfish. He says that some Houston area restaurants are touting catfish but serving a different catch. He writes that some restaurants "serve an imported Basa or ...

Diners who order grouper, Florida’s most prized fish, may be eating cheaper substitutes instead, mainly a Vietnamese catfish known as basa. Some seafood distributors avoid U.S. tariffs on the catfish ...

Barely a year after a landmark agreement that was supposed to normalize postwar trading relations between the United States and Vietnam, the two nations are in a cat fight over catfish. The cause of ...

The Catfish Farmers of America (CFA) is set to urge Congress and the federal regulatory agencies to take immediate action against what it labels “the fraudulent marketing tactics of Vietnamese basa ...

The Catfish Farmers of America (CFA) is upping the stakes in its battle against mislabeled basa fish imports from Vietnam, with a full-page advert in the current issue of Roll Call. The ad is ...

ITTA BENA, Miss. — It’s 100 degrees, the mosquitoes are descending in clouds and five men with shirts stuck to their backs with sweat wade into the slime-green pond and begin to scoop out catfish.

ATLANTA — They don’t look too much like catfish. They don’t taste like them either -- at least to catfish connoisseurs. But Vietnamese basa and tra often fool consumers in the U.S., where they’re ...

ATLANTA - They don't look too much like catfish. They don't taste like them, either — at least to catfish connoisseurs. But Vietnamese basa and tra fish often fool consumers in the U.S., where they're ...

Yogesh Grover smelled a rotten fish when, in 2007, he moved to India. After having worked in Africa and Europe, Grover, director of seafood importer Empire Foods, was left cold by the quality of fish ...