WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., led colleagues in introducing a resolution to designate August 2024 as National Catfish Month. Mississippi produces more than half of the farm raised catfish in the United States.

“Mississippi’s catfish farmers put a safe and quality product on America’s dinner tables. This effort is a small way we can recognize their local and national economic impact,” Senator Wicker said.

Senator Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and ten other senators from states that also produce catfish joined in this effort.