SRAC - Our Region

The thirteen states and two territories included in the Southern Region are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands and Virginia.

Many species of fish and shellfish are produced in the Southern Region, including catfish, crawfish, baitfish, hybrid striped bass, trout and tilapia.

CATFISH
Ninety-four percent of the nation's catfish is raised in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi...

CRAWFISH
Crawfish farming developed as an means to provide consumers a more reliable source of quality crawfish...

ORNAMENTALS
The Southeastern United States is home to one of the heaviest concentrations of ornamental aquaculture in the world...

HYBRID STRIPED BASS
Hybrid striped bass culture began in the southeastern U.S. in the late 1980s and has rapidly developed into a major aquaculture industry...

BAIT AND FEEDER FISH
The Southern Region supplies much of the nation’s bait and feeder fish. Annual retail sales of baitfish alone in North America have been estimated at $1 billion...

TILAPIA
"Tilapia" is the generic name for a group of Cichlids endemic to Africa and the Middle East. Cichlids have a body shape similar to North American sunfishes...