Mississippi farm raised catfish provides the most consistent year round supply of fish gurry. It is the only commercial species available in large quantities twelve months of the year.
The state ranks first in the US catfish production with about 112,000 acres of catfish ponds and sales of catfish have doubled in the last 5 years. HCA's raw material supplier, Consolidated Catfish Companies, LLC, is one of the largest and most successful catfish processors in the state. The present plant processes 1,300,000 pounds of catfish per week of which half can be used as fish gurry. We plan to process 250,000 pounds per week in 2004 of a single strength liquid hydrolysate.
MultiBloom® does not use decomposing remains of fish. MultiBloom® is processed from freshly harvested catfish that is ground up and the protein is used one Millimeter in size.
