Overview

USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS 2011) reported that more than 800 trout-rearing farms were located in the United States in 2010. Trout sales that year totaled $71.3 million, a decrease of 5 percent from the previous year.

Idaho recorded $34.9 million in trout sales, the highest total of any state, which accounted for 49 percent of U.S. sales. North Carolina ranked second with $6.2 million in trout sales, followed by Pennsylvania with $5.3 million and Arkansas with $5.1 million.  (NASS 2011)  January 2011 ... Trout


Marketing

• Census of Aquaculture (2005), USDA, 2006.
• Global Ag Trade System, Foreign Ag Service, USDA.
• Imports and Exports of Fishery Products: Annual Summary, Fisheries Statistics Division, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 2009.
• United States Trout Farmers Association - USTFA is the oldest commercial aquaculture trade organization in the United States. It now has members in nearly every state. 

Production

• Aquaculture, Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA.
• Aquaculture Data, ERS, USDA, 2010.
• Aquaculture in North Carolina: Rainbow Trout, North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, 2001.
• Farmed Rainbow Trout fact sheet, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
• Rainbow Trout Cultured Aquatic Species Fact Sheet, Fisheries Global Information System, Food and Ag Organization (FAO), 2003.
• Trout, North Carolina State University Aquaculture Extension.
• Trout, Southern Regional Aquaculture Center, Texas A&M University.
• Trout Production, National Ag Statistics Service, USDA, 2011.

Businesses/Case Studies

• Bullfrog Fish Farm, Menomonie, Wisconsin - Herby Radmann built a small profitable fish farm from scratch. He sells thousands of pounds of rainbow trout each year to farm visitors,restaurants and retail outlets
• Century Trout Farm, Oregon, Wisconsin - This fee-fishing enterprise has a website with photos of the resources and an FAQ section that covers topics including group availability, fish species, pricing, disabled angler provisions and various services.
• Heartland Fish Cooperative, Ag Marketing Resource Center, Iowa State University, 2003 - Business profile on Iowa aquaculture operation. The cooperative has four family producer-owners with indoor, enclosed aquaculture facilities at two locations. They produce "fresh-frozen" fresh-dressed, wrapped and frozen rainbow trout and walleye pike fillets.
• Rainbow Trout Farm, Sandy, Oregon - This youth- and family-oriented enterprise has 30 acres of trees and meadows and ten landscaped fishing holes stocked with rainbow trout.
• Wilderness Springs Trout Farm, New London, Wisconsin - In its 30 ponds and concrete raceways, this trout production operation hatches 300,000 rainbow trout per year. It generates revenue more or less equally from public “fee” fishing and the production of fish for pond stocking and sport shows.

Links checked March 2012.