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Article: Pond scum the next cash cow?
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 15, 2009
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BELZONI, Miss. - Pond scum was once an aquatic nuisance that Hall
Barret III once hated to see in his catfish ponds.
It just might become his next cash cow.
After more than 30 years, Barret is giving up catfish and
becoming a landlord of algae. And he is hoping that his lease
agreement with PetroSun BioFuels Inc. pays him huge royalties.
The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company wants to convert Barret's
catfish ponds into an algae farm to produce alternative fuel, paying
the owner of B&B Fish Farm thousands of dollars to baby-sit the new
and unusual crop.
"Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought that I
would be doing this," said Barret, who for decades has operated the
Mississippi ...
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